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>From: zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: lookup tables again
Message-ID: <1992Apr3.092019.27965@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 3 Apr 92 09:20:19 GMT
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In article <1992Apr01.204057.28962@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>In article <1992Apr1.011348.11035@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU 
>(Bill Skaggs) writes:
>>  Suppose we imagine that the universe has a finite number of
>>possible states, and that time is quantized.  (If quantum
>>mechanics is correct and the universe is finite, both of
>>these are true.)  
>
>I don't think this is correct.  For one thing, it's not known if space is
>quantized, so positions may still be real numbers.  And I don't think
>it's known that time is quantized, either.  For that matter, the universe
>can't be a FSA if it's not deterministic, can it?

Ok, I'll bite again. Why can't the universe be REAL and
deterministic. I think that you overstepped in your
conclusion that being based on real numbers somehow
escapes determinism. To me this does not seem to follow
even though I am aware that we are talking of infinite
sets & such. If you want to insist that the universe
is non-deterministic, you will have to do better than
that and say what it IS. Saying something is non-something
is not saying much at all! (I had non-bananas for lunch
today :-)

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