[Noisebridge-discuss] Philosophy and Computer Language Question

[Ryan Rawson]

See the problem with this 'process philosophy' is it sounds like a
MODEL of the real world to me, rather than "how it works".  Without an
evidential backing, how can this process philosophy be anything other
than wishful thinking?

As for the computer science side of things, ultimately when you get
down to it, everything is bits and bytes and CPU instructions. So we
can talk in terms of floating point precisions, ranges of integers,
memory sizes, cpu speed, etc.

And on a more 'out there' moment, it would require a computer with as
much computing power that is implied by the universe itself to
simulate the universe. That is we can consider the universe as a
real-time computing platform that is simulating itself, and all the
computations that would be required to make it happen would also have
to be replicated. Eg: all the quantum interactions and other processes
that build up and cause reality.  Futhermore, we cant simulate reality
because we dont know how it fully works yet.  So whatever we build as
a simulation is merely a model of reality, and thus will always
diverge from it in eventually (presumably?) important ways.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Caleb Grayson <calebgrayson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well.. I'm not sure. I'm more of a philosopher than a computer scientist.
>
> In Whitehead's Process Philosophy he said everything in reality is a
> function or process that takes in the entire universe at every moment and
> spits out Actual Occasions that become apart of the Creative Advance, the
> history of functional  results in time and space.
>
> There is a question as to what time an space are. It is m suspicion that
> functions and their solutions are not in time and space, but time and space
> are  in functions and their solutions. Why would times and spaces for which
> nothing is happening be generated by an efficient system?
> CS, if I understand correctly, time and space have to be predefined by
> establishing their numerical domains first.
> I'm hoping CS in its attempt to simulate reality can give inside into it.
>
> Of course CS being a rational/material system has no place to calculate for
> spirit/soul outside of its system which Whitehead does allow for.
>
> On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Will Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> my particular interest is how simulations handle events in time and space.
>>  how does a simulation taken multiple input from multiple functions or users
>> and align them in time•space.  what would those functions look like?
>
>
> Are you talking about multi-agent systems?
>
> Will.
>
>
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