Re:The Simulation Argument and the Simulation Barrier
by Wowfunhappy on Monday November 25, 2019 @05:23PM
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> If a simulation cannot produce consciousness, what is special about life that makes it unrepresentable with physics?
Authors can write stories with believable worlds and compelling characters. Given infinite time, an author could detail how a character would react to every possible situation. But no matter how much they wrote down, their words would just be words. There isn't some breaking point where the author writes enough to create a pocket universe.
Why are turing machines different?
Just because the universe is governed by physics does not mean that physics are sufficient to construct a universe. I expect that "physicality" is a real property of some kind, which doesn't appear just because you described it accurately.
So much of this is guesswork, I may well be wrong—but it strikes me as the most logical conclusion.
Authors can write stories with believable worlds and compelling characters. Given infinite time, an author could detail how a character would react to every possible situation. But no matter how much they wrote down, their words would just be words. There isn't some breaking point where the author writes enough to create a pocket universe.
Why are turing machines different?
Just because the universe is governed by physics does not mean that physics are sufficient to construct a universe. I expect that "physicality" is a real property of some kind, which doesn't appear just because you described it accurately.
So much of this is guesswork, I may well be wrong—but it strikes me as the most logical conclusion.