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Is reality like a computer?

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Is reality like a computer?
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RE: Is reality like a computer?
September 23, 2013 at 9:02 pm (This post was last modified: September 23, 2013 at 9:02 pm by Whateverist.)
(September 23, 2013 at 8:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: A fully coherent reality requires must more than information system based on 1s and 0s. It also needs a substrate to support it and intelligence to interpret it.

Ah-hah! That is what I've been saying all along. If there was a creator god*, it would have to work within the restraints of some underlying substrate. Since we now understand that everything and nothing are both underlying potentialities of space itself, it would seem that being a creator would require a little less 'blinking-into-existence'. Then again, why the middle man? What reason is there to think that space is inhibited by something like inertia from whizzing stuff freely into and out of existence? What is the god needed for and how would the nature of space account for their emergence?

* Don't get your hopes up.
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Is reality like a computer? - by Nightfoot92 - September 21, 2013 at 2:55 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Brian37 - September 21, 2013 at 2:59 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Walking Void - September 21, 2013 at 3:23 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Rayaan - September 21, 2013 at 3:37 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by bennyboy - September 21, 2013 at 7:22 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Walking Void - September 21, 2013 at 9:13 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Jiggerj - September 22, 2013 at 2:20 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by max-greece - September 22, 2013 at 2:29 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Brian37 - September 22, 2013 at 6:38 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Rahul - September 22, 2013 at 6:46 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by max-greece - September 23, 2013 at 9:20 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by gilbertc06 - September 22, 2013 at 3:06 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Jiggerj - September 22, 2013 at 3:18 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Brian37 - September 22, 2013 at 7:13 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by max-greece - September 22, 2013 at 8:35 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Jiggerj - September 22, 2013 at 9:47 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by gilbertc06 - September 22, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Jiggerj - September 22, 2013 at 1:30 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Nightfoot92 - September 22, 2013 at 6:27 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by bennyboy - September 22, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by bennyboy - September 22, 2013 at 3:37 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by bennyboy - September 22, 2013 at 9:18 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by genkaus - September 22, 2013 at 9:54 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Whateverist - September 22, 2013 at 12:55 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Walking Void - September 23, 2013 at 8:57 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Jiggerj - September 23, 2013 at 4:06 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Brian37 - September 23, 2013 at 5:04 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Nightfoot92 - September 23, 2013 at 7:52 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Brian37 - September 24, 2013 at 1:16 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Neo-Scholastic - September 23, 2013 at 8:52 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Whateverist - September 23, 2013 at 9:02 pm
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by Doubting Thomas - September 24, 2013 at 9:18 am
RE: Is reality like a computer? - by max-greece - September 24, 2013 at 10:32 am

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