[extropy-chat] Fragmentation of computations

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:24:53PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:

>    Indeed, but that doesn't contradict the timeless view - see my
>    subsequent post where I point out why even to a Platonist like me, who
>    is happy with the idea of an array of frames being conscious, it's
>    still wrong to claim rocks are conscious.

I have no trouble with an a sequence of frames being conscious.

However, I don't see how e.g. a Hash Life can be validated,
without resorting to an explicit construction of subsequent
trajectory frames (spacetime plot in CA lingo).

The same applies to explicit enumeration.

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