[Meatloaf] Stephan Wolfram essay on time & space

[Jim Hatfield]

Cool speech about 'water' and perspective and choice!

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:33 PM frank at cozmic.com <frank.szeflinski 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.
>
> 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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