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Comment by mjburgess

I don't see this as a joke, but a radical and important point.

Reality, in being geometrical, is infinitely informationally dense (with a discrete conception of information).

This distinction between geometrical space and time, and discrete algorithmic computability is unbridgeable.

And hence there is an extemely firm footing on which to reject: AI, brain scanning readers, teleporters, etc and most sci-fi computationalim.

Almost nothing can be simulated, as in, realised by a merely computational system.

parent mjburgess 5 years ago

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