From: Sanny on
> Small Universe Theory
>
> Hypotheses
>
> 1) Our universe can be simulated by running a program on a super big
> computer.
> 2) That program is among the shortest programs that can simulate
> intelligent life.

The Question is who prepared that Program?

Only an intelligent life can create a Super Big Computer.

Then What Universe the Creator lives in?

Its Shell inside shell.

Creator created a Program -> We create another Program and inside it
again an intelligent life.

Our Universe is shells. The Big we grow the Bigger things we can find.

The smaller we go The smaller things can be found.

Going Small
-> Solids -> Molecules -> Electron/ Protons -> Quarks -> ???

Going Large ->
Solids -> Mountains -> Earth -> Solar System -> Galaxy -> Universe -
> ???

Bye
Sanny

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From: Hein Hundal on
On Jul 20, 1:47 pm, Sanny <softtank...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Small Universe Theory
>
>> Hypotheses
>> 1) Our universe can be simulated by running
>> a program on a super big computer.
>> 2) That program is among the shortest programs
>> that can simulate intelligent life.
>
> The Question is who prepared that Program?
>

Hi Sanny,

In order for the program to exist, the computer has to exist, so
that requires a universe much larger than ours. So suppose there is a
very large computer (one that can do 10^(10^100) operations per second
and has 10^(10^100) bytes of RAM) in a very large universe that is not
our universe. If there are several such computers and several
programmers, then one of the programmers might write a program that
runs a Turing machine on all possible inputs (programs). If it was
possible to simulate our universe with any program, then it would be
one of those Turing inputs.

> Only intelligent life can create a Super Big Computer.
>

I wonder if a natural process might accidentally start computing. If
a universe is large enough, even very improbable things could happen
by accident.

> Then What Universe the Creator lives in?
> Its Shell inside shell.

I am only suggesting that most small universes (i.e. less than 10^100
particles) which are only 3 dimensional, have simple universal
physical laws, and something like quantum mechanics to limit the
"resolution" of the simulation are simulations. I am not claiming
that any universe that contains intelligent life is a simulation.

That would limit the shell inside a shell problem.


Cheers,
Hein

PS: It's turtles all the way down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down