Comments on: Historical noise? Simulation and essential/accidental history https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/historical-noise-simulation-and-essentialaccidental-history/ Conceptual meandering Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Monomorphic https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/historical-noise-simulation-and-essentialaccidental-history/comment-page-1/#comment-441043 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:34:25 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1398#comment-441043 […] time, can lead to the same result. Just as 3+1 and 2+2 both “equal” 4. In other words, history becomes irrelevant, the specific path taken no longer means very much. But it is not clear that this can ever truly be […]

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By: Shandar Ahmad https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/historical-noise-simulation-and-essentialaccidental-history/comment-page-1/#comment-416083 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:52:34 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1398#comment-416083 Hi Janita,
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By: Johan Nystrom https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/historical-noise-simulation-and-essentialaccidental-history/comment-page-1/#comment-387310 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 04:35:17 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1398#comment-387310 Shandar, thanks for your comment. I agree that new possibilities for information storage don’t necessarily depend on ever smaller subdivisions of space but could also be encountered, as you say, in interactions between larger objects. To exhaustively test all such possibilities is no more feasible than to reach the “bottom level” of the physical universe. This is very interesting.

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By: Shandar Ahmad https://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/historical-noise-simulation-and-essentialaccidental-history/comment-page-1/#comment-386961 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:49:47 +0000 http://www.monomorphic.org/wordpress/?p=1398#comment-386961 Interesting discussion and very nicely articulated. I agree that both the scenarios must be considered in setting the goals of AI/AB or understanding life in general. To the initial point raised that the closer we zoom in on a system, newer quanta of energy or information storage are likely to emerge. I speculate that the new information storage or the recordings of history may be contained not in smaller-scale descriptions of minute systems. They may as well “emerge” spontatneously from the way the entities are organized at a macro-level. In other words we may already know all the entities in the universe but not all the large-scale interactions between them. The macrostates of systems may have features which cannot be broken down to their microstates. Thus the nature of a larger synergy between objects is something to watch out for.

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