#computational reality

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[johnsparker]

The Absolute as 'Cosmic Computer':       ...we can describe the physical universe as a complex computation existing in the structure of ASA’s self-awareness.    To be a bit more precise: the physical universe is that complex computation in which ASA ‘sees’ its own essence (namely, self-causation through self-awareness) best reflected. Thus ASA completes its self-awareness by mirroring itself in the computational structure of the physical universe.    In this way I explain the Wheeler universe, i.e. the universe that creates itself by evolving the very observers whose acts of observation bring the universe into existence. This self-observing and self-creating universe is, in my view, the computational mirror image of ASA.

Peter Sas,  Absolute Idealism, Mathematics, and the Problem of the One and the Many

at: http://critique-of-pure-interest.blogspot.com/

[johnsparker]

The Platform Problem:       ...my arguments for an idealist solution to the platform problem are as follows:    First of all, if physical processes are all computational, then the platform underlying those computations cannot itself be physical as well, on pain of an infinite regress. Hence, the platform must be non-physical.    Subsequently, the non-physical nature of consciousness is argued on the basis of the hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers 1996). If, as the hard problem suggests, consciousness cannot be reduced to physical and computational processes, then consciousness in turn might very well be the non-physical base to which the physical and the computational reduce.

Peter Sas, Is the Universe a Self-Computing Consciousness?

at: https://www.academia.edu/20880884/Is_the_Universe_a_Self-Computing_Consciousness_From_Digital_Physics_to_Roycean_Idealism

[johnsparker]

The Simulation Argument:       “There’s a one in billions chance [we’re in] base reality,” he said. “I think it’s one in billions. We should hope that’s true because otherwise if civilization stops advancing, that could be due to some calamitous event that erases civilization, so maybe we should be hopeful this is a simulation. Otherwise, we will create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality or civilization will cease to exist. Those are the two options.”

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and Space X, quoted by Jason Koebler at:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/elon-musk-simulated-universe-hypothesis