Re: How many bits are necessary to store the universe?

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From: tadchem
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:10

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Traveler wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2005 08:21:19 -0800, "tadchem" <thomas.davidson@dla.mil>
> wrote:
>
> >John Horton Conway's 'Game of Life' is a simplistic universe with bits,
> >a space, and a simple set of rules which leads to an infinitely diverse
> >universe.  I recommend a study of it.
>
> There really is no need for a space. Ascribing intrinsic positions to
> particles (cells) is more than sufficient.

I do not understand how one can assign intrinsic positions to anything
without some means of *defining* those positions and allowing the
comparison of disparate positions - in other words, something that
performs all the *functions* of a metric space.

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA

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