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Nov 08, 2025

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Nov 04, 2025

10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society

TheTuringPrinciple

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9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.

TheTuringPrinciple

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5-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)

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1-1a5b4.5 Truth is about correspondence with reality

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1-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).

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10-2g2c0 A system is universal if it contains enough expressibility to represent anything. It can do anything and everything.

Jun 09, 2025

5-1b1a1c4 The interoperability laws (i.e., substrate-independent formulation of information) are more detailed exposition of the Turing principle

Oct 19, 2024

10-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achieve

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1-1a2e2 Languages are not innate to humans

TheTuringPrinciple

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1-2g2b3 Computational universality is about computers inside our physical world being related to each other under the universal laws of physics to which we (thereby) have access (because human brains are computers)

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2f The virtual-reality rendering of their environment (i.e., creating knowledge about its niches) is the characteristic means by which human beings (and life in general) survive

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2h Life is associated with a fundamental principle of physics – the Turing principle – since it is the means by which virtual reality was first realized in nature. (Life = physical embodiment of knowledge = the Turing principle)

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2i0 Life is computation in the sense of assuming other object (i.e., genes assuming its surrounding environment)

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2m The existence of highly adapted replicators depends on the Turing principle because those are in essence universal virtual-reality generators. Explicit reference to replicators, evolution, or biology, are not necessary.

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2n The Turing principle is an apparent fact, and we are trying to explain that fact, to place it within the same framework as other facts we know

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2q Knowledge can result in one thing being represented by another thing with increasing accuracy, through the creation of explanatory knowledge

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

1-2g2r The Turing principle, if true, dictates that we can form accurate theories about reality. Knowledge to the Turing principle is what steam engines are to the principles of thermodynamics. That is, the Turing principle implies knowledge.

Jul 18, 2024

10-1b3 Sapir - 'Culture is not something given but something to be gradually and gropingly discovered'

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

10-2g2c0a Universal systems retain the capacity to represent knowledge that is not yet created, thus can be useful in the future.

Jul 18, 2024

10-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)

Jul 18, 2024

10-2g2e9d There are no 'species' in nature. Reality doesn't distinguish life by categories.

Jul 18, 2024

10-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structures

Jul 18, 2024

5-1b1a1c1 The interoperability law - information can be copied from any system that can embody information to any other such system, irrespective of the details (i.e., substrate-independent)

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

5-1b1a2c1 Principles are meta-contingency. Whatever can happen can happen regardless of how.

TheTuringPrinciple

Jul 18, 2024

9-4b2a1 Most of the evolution happened inside human brains

Jul 18, 2024

9-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literally

Jul 18, 2024

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Tag: TheTuringPrinciple

David Deutsch

10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society

9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.

5-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)

1-1a5b4.5 Truth is about correspondence with reality

1-2g2e What science and creative thought in general achieves is unpredictable creation out of nothing. That is, creation of knowledge. And so is biological evolution (i.e., life).

10-2g2c0 A system is universal if it contains enough expressibility to represent anything. It can do anything and everything.

5-1b1a1c4 The interoperability laws (i.e., substrate-independent formulation of information) are more detailed exposition of the Turing principle

10-2g1f2c It's as though everything from culture-grammar-symbol-DNA-brain evolved so that high accuracy correspondences were made easier to achieve

1-1a2e2 Languages are not innate to humans

1-2g2b3 Computational universality is about computers inside our physical world being related to each other under the universal laws of physics to which we (thereby) have access (because human brains are computers)

1-2g2f The virtual-reality rendering of their environment (i.e., creating knowledge about its niches) is the characteristic means by which human beings (and life in general) survive

1-2g2h Life is associated with a fundamental principle of physics – the Turing principle – since it is the means by which virtual reality was first realized in nature. (Life = physical embodiment of knowledge = the Turing principle)

1-2g2i Genes (life) are programs that embody the laws of physics (of their own niches)

1-2g2i0 Life is computation in the sense of assuming other object (i.e., genes assuming its surrounding environment)

1-2g2j1 Accuracy is the closeness, as far as is perceptible, of the rendered environment to the intended one (intension)

1-2g2j2 Icons are intentional resemblances. It is 'about' something.

1-2g2m The existence of highly adapted replicators depends on the Turing principle because those are in essence universal virtual-reality generators. Explicit reference to replicators, evolution, or biology, are not necessary.

1-2g2n The Turing principle is an apparent fact, and we are trying to explain that fact, to place it within the same framework as other facts we know

1-2g2q Knowledge can result in one thing being represented by another thing with increasing accuracy, through the creation of explanatory knowledge

1-2g2r The Turing principle, if true, dictates that we can form accurate theories about reality. Knowledge to the Turing principle is what steam engines are to the principles of thermodynamics. That is, the Turing principle implies knowledge.

10-1b3 Sapir - 'Culture is not something given but something to be gradually and gropingly discovered'

10-2g2c0a Universal systems retain the capacity to represent knowledge that is not yet created, thus can be useful in the future.

10-2g2e7 Abstraction is universal, precisely because they are in the abstract (i.e., itself not contingently constrained by its own physicality)

10-2g2e9d There are no 'species' in nature. Reality doesn't distinguish life by categories.

10-2g3 Symbols are shaped by social values, social knowledge, and social structures

5-1b1a1c1 The interoperability law - information can be copied from any system that can embody information to any other such system, irrespective of the details (i.e., substrate-independent)

5-1b1a2c1 Principles are meta-contingency. Whatever can happen can happen regardless of how.

9-4b2a1 Most of the evolution happened inside human brains

9-4b2a1a Brains mimic the evolution of life, both generally and literally

What can be measured can be copied, and vice versa