Comment 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
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.