"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> Am I the only person around here who feels like they aren't at all
> sure they believe the "infinite amounts of computation lets you
> simulate everything" notion? The reasoning feels as specious as Zeno's
> paradox in a lot of ways to me.
This depends on if you believe in the Church-Turing thesis (everything
calculable can be calculated on a Turing machine) and the
calculability of the universe. If you accept them, then everything can
be simulated (and even better, emulated). If you don't, then things
get trickier.
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