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  1. PolyHedral

    Cosmological argument, reformulated.

    Not for me it isn't. I can comprehend it just fine.
  2. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    You seem to be ignoring the causality in there. :areyoucra Why is it surprising that the final configuration is determined by the initial configuration?
  3. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Meaning is the set of what is true about a thing. :D
  4. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    Where did you get the (3/10)/(1-1/10) from?
  5. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    That's not quite right. If the computer can run forever, it can do things like "solve" the Halting problem. (Run the program you want to check.) It can't solve the HP in any finite amount of time, even if said amount is arbitarily large. Godel's incompleteness theorem shows that no formal...
  6. PolyHedral

    What is free will?

  7. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    No they don't. All fingers make up many hands.
  8. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    If you reject zero, you also reject negative numbers. Now what? :D
  9. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    You are storing information that can be recovered in this setup. You recover it by either physically transporting the ion out of the trap, or teleporting its state into another part of the machine.
  10. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    So "store" them without measuring them, e.g. with ion traps. A row of 1000 ion traps, each of which encodes a qubit via some property like spin counts as quantum RAM in my book.
  11. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    I'm asking what's impossible in principle about a machine which carries quantum states around in exactly the same way that a modern processor/memory carries around classical states.
  12. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    Of course.
  13. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    When you're completely done and want to write something out to an output device, yes. There's no reason why your "RAM" can't store qubits, other than engineering. ...Why not? Why can't I have a programming language that has quantum objects as data structures?
  14. PolyHedral

    i saw an equation in my dreams lastnight! opinions?

    Shouldn't that be two pi? :D
  15. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    There's no physical requirement for that. It's merely very difficult to engineer a stable qubit register. (Normal service may be resumed when I don't have code to write.)
  16. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    That's because awareness is cause and effect. :D
  17. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    How many have you read? "Semantics" of programming is incredibly basic. It covers things like copy-by-value vs. copy-by-reference.
  18. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    In my course, Computer Science 11001 (as it was designated) was the basics of Java programming, including the semantics of objects, instances and static data. Of course, they were teaching the semantics to the humans, and so didn't use that particular word, but that's what they explained - what...
  19. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    So store the binding. :cool:
  20. PolyHedral

    Getting from cause effect to awareness

    So, executing instructions that have the structure and semantics of object association does not mean you're actually associating objects... Why not? Consciousness itself isn't difficult. (Ohai, 'this' pointers!) It's all the background knowledge you need to understand what space is,
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