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Article 4677 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Infinite Minds?
Message-ID: <1992Mar23.231320.20388@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 92 23:13:20 GMT
References: <1992Mar21.024804.10085@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Mar23.171539.27586@cs.ucf.edu>
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In article <1992Mar23.171539.27586@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
>In article <1992Mar21.024804.10085@husc3.harvard.edu>  
>zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

>| your own assumption.  Are you perchance assuming digital functioning of the
>| universe? 

>I don't know whether physics is mechanizable by a Turing machine or not.   
>Actually I suspect and hope not.  This is just hypothesis C.

 Whoa!  Just a minute.

 Even if physics can be computed to any desired degree of accuracy by a TM,
this would not in any way prove that the universe is digital.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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