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Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by SnowProblem on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:42PM (#28503641)
And the reason for this, as we all know, is because the universe runs on distributed computers with no global state, where each computer simulates its own local physics and connects only to other nearby computers, and thus the so-called speed of light is simply the emergent rate that data may travel across the network.
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by agumonkey on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:07PM (#28507126)
It's funny, as a programmer i had similar interpretations. Universe is like a processor and the c is the frequency limit.

There was a talk with lawrence krauss I think, where he explained that at galaxy scales, everything is distributed, there's not one reality but an infinity since no point in space can be aware of far points in the universe.

I also wonder if there would be ways to tweak C.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by joombaga on Sunday September 12, 2021 @11:55PM (#28507720)
This short story might tickle your fancy.

https://qntm.org/admin

(I also highly recommend their book "There Is No Antimemetics Division" if you're at all interested in SCP Foundation)

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by TedDoesntTalk on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:47AM (#28508505)
Good story! What is SCP Foundation?
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by snak on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:53AM (#28509169)
Nice one, thanks for sharing.
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by archibaldJ on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:05PM (#28507122)
No, has to be more subtle than that.

The rate the simulators transmit data are irrelevant to our timeframe (since we’re a part of the computation).

I believe it’s more like a centralized interpreter with decentralized (NP) evaluation strategies. The limit reflects the minumium size of a recursive expression.

Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? by archibaldJ on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:03PM (#28514635)
I meant NTM*, that is to say, assuming many-world interpretation where the way your conscious experience of your life makes quantum measurements by (somehow) following the shorest accpeting computation of the NTM. Your life is thus meaningful as everything you experience from birth to death is literally the solution.

Consciousness (at least in this world) can perchance then be understood as the artifact of a feedback loop constructed by a (meta-circular) interpreter that converts the topologies of molecules into qualia, which then makes adjustment to the reflective tower (with physiological-changes-in-brain&body as correspondence).

Time perception then is the same consequence that follows relativity ie a direct result of this speed limit that reflects the minumium size of a recursive expression (but concerning only the viscosity and turbulence of neurotransmitters in relative to eletric signals?)