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Systems | The Beginning of Infinity 2 of 5 | David Deutsch

The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog

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Is There a Universal System of Numbers?

There's a hierarchy of universality. The next level above tallying is counting, which involves numerals. When tallying goats, one is merely thinking another, another, another,. Another, another. So I wonder how close computer languages are to fully being able to simulate the world. We just have to encode that in our brains and then execute the program just like a computer.

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