http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2005/02/05/god-book-of-zogg/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:35:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2005/02/05/god-book-of-zogg/#comment-6527 emilio Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:27:34 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/wordpress/?p=277#comment-6527 This is a rich post. It brings up a lot of questions. One of these issues I think you are pointing at is survivability. Maybe the integral of complexity over time, which might be a good definition of survivability, is Our measure of value? At least, we humans might think so. I have some ill formed questions about these computations, and I fear my mathematical sophistication may not be up to the task. I hope that these will be answered in references in your book or in your book. My understanding is that these are finite computations. The idea is somehow to generate all of the phenomena of the universe via these finite computations, thereby avoiding the messy problem of infinity, by identifying a generating function for the universe. My intuition tells me that one problem will be that this function will not be unique – hmm its starting to sound like string theory. OTOH, the spectrum of a finite thing in time has an infinite representation in some dual space. Does this reintroduce the problem of infinity even when one tries to bound it via a finite generator? Anyway, I suspect that you have thought about these things much more deeply than I. I am looking forward to your books arrival. This is a rich post. It brings up a lot of questions. One of these issues I think you are pointing at is survivability. Maybe the integral of complexity over time, which might be a good definition of survivability, is Our measure of value? At least, we humans might think so.
I have some ill formed questions about these computations, and I fear my mathematical sophistication may not be up to the task. I hope that these will be answered in references in your book or in your book. My understanding is that these are finite computations. The idea is somehow to generate all of the phenomena of the universe via these finite computations, thereby avoiding the messy problem of infinity, by identifying a generating function for the universe. My intuition tells me that one problem will be that this function will not be unique – hmm its starting to sound like string theory. OTOH, the spectrum of a finite thing in time has an infinite representation in some dual space. Does this reintroduce the problem of infinity even when one tries to bound it via a finite generator? Anyway, I suspect that you have thought about these things much more deeply than I. I am looking forward to your books arrival.

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