in the beginning

Some wonder if God created all possible worlds.
Maybe He only had to create a description of each possible world - if the descriptions were perfectly accurate.
But this would be as simple as counting: 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, ...

Luitzen E. Brouwer believed that counting and all of mathematics is nothing but the passage of time...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is the point of this? I don't get it.

wolfgang said...

A Turing machine which generates *all* numbers by counting is simple, e.g. 1) print 1 2) move head right 3) goto 1

The Turing machine which generates a specific number (e.g. a large prime number) is much more complicated.

Every description, every program, is nothing but a binary sequence 101101010111... i.e. a natural number.

Therefore I wonder if it was easier to create all possible worlds or our specific world only.

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