[Meatloaf] Stephan Wolfram essay on time & space

[frank@cozmic.com]

Thanks for sharing.  Sounds a little like the wormhole aliens/prophets in
Deep Space Nine.  It's an interesting concept to contemplate.

As one fish said to another, "This is water."

https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 8:57 PM pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
>
> All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
> You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
> For great justice.
>
> In essence, therefore, we experience time because of the interplay between
> our computational boundedness as observers, and the computational
> irreducibility of underlying processes in the universe. If we were not
> computationally bounded, we could “perceive the whole of the future in one
> gulp” and we wouldn’t need a notion of time at all. And if there wasn’t
> underlying computational irreducibility there wouldn’t be the kind of
> “progressive revealing of the future” that we associate with our experience
> of time.
>
>
> https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the-nature-of-time/
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