[Fis] What is a machine?

[Stanley N Salthe]

Thanks, Bruno.  Here is a related text:

https://aeon.co/ideas/wired-that-way-genes-do-shape-behaviours-but-its-complicated

STAN

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 5:24 AM Bruno Marchal <marchal en ulb.ac.be> wrote:

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> > On 25 Oct 2019, at 21:02, Stanley N Salthe <ssalthe en binghamton.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Bruno, Joseph -- Somewhat delayed: I can contribute my 1993 definition
> of 'machine' as: "the most highly specified object there can be" No natural
> system qualifies under this definition.
>
> That is a quite astonishing definition, which makes sense for the digital
> machine (which can be seen as relative natural numbers, which I agree might
> not make sense in Nature. This is a quasi theorem in the Digital Mechanist
> Theory, as nature is “only” an appearance emerging from a relative
> statistics on all computations. Nature, in that frame is how the numbers
> see the numbers, and they cannot observe them, just a not entirely
> computable emerging pattern. In that setting, physics is no more a science
> studying an ontological reality, but a relative appearance brought by a
> statistics on all machine’s experience (and this is confirmed by quantum
> mechanics without wave packet reduction, like in Everett theory. This makes
> physics into a branch of digital information theory/computer science.
>
> Bruno
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> >>
> >> STAN
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