Comments on: How is a Program Like a Universe? http://theta.codesimplicity.com/archives/12 Scientology and Computer Programming Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Max Kanat-Alexander http://theta.codesimplicity.com/archives/12#comment-121 Max Kanat-Alexander Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:22:12 +0000 http://theta.codesimplicity.com/archives/12#comment-121 Thanks! :-) You might be able to describe the state of the universe at any given moment in a mathematical sense (and thus as a program), but the one thing that a computer can't do is have volition, so volition acting upon the universe would change its state in a way that couldn't be described by a computer program. -Max Thanks! :-)

You might be able to describe the state of the universe at any given moment in a mathematical sense (and thus as a program), but the one thing that a computer can’t do is have volition, so volition acting upon the universe would change its state in a way that couldn’t be described by a computer program.

-Max

]]> By: Sriram http://theta.codesimplicity.com/archives/12#comment-120 Sriram Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:14:05 +0000 http://theta.codesimplicity.com/archives/12#comment-120 Spectacular conception. I've always suspected the more important vice-versa - That the universe we know could actually be a computer program. Spectacular conception. I’ve always suspected the more important vice-versa - That the universe we know could actually be a computer program.

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