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Ep 124: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 6 “Universality and the limits of Computation”

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Can't Go to Environments

Any environment that satisfies these rules i shall call i can't go to environment. It does not matter how it does behave, so long as it is recognizably different fromvion ent one. In every other environment on the list, it cannot be any of those either. But that list contains all the environments that are generated by every possible programme for this machine. The ones that can't be deduced vastly outnumber the number of environments that can be rendered. That's a kind of diagonal argument.

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