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I think this has some meaning for the abundance of life in the multiverse. If most human-created systems of sufficient complexity turn out to accidentally support computation, then maybe most laws of physics support computation. Hey, it's not better or worse than any other way to guess.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not...
The idea of creating computers out of virtual objects has always fascinated me since I first saw someone do it in Minecraft. It really brings up some interesting scenarios that I like to day dream about sometimes. For instance, in a real world simulation, you could build a processor with a gazillion transistors because you don’t have to worry about the same physical limitations like size or heat. Could it take an inp…
No. Whatever you do to process the information could always be done faster if you did it directly on a computer without the overhead of the simulation itself.
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* Network Extensions 2 (More roads.)
* Precision Engineering (Better placement of roads.)
* Move It (Fine adjustment of roads after placing them.)
* Traffic Manager PE (Better control of intersections.)
* Real Time (Better day/night/week cycle with rush hour.)
* Extended Game Options (More tiles to build on.)
I think this has some meaning for the abundance of life in the multiverse. If most human-created systems of sufficient complexity turn out to accidentally support computation, then maybe most laws of physics support computation. Hey, it's not better or worse than any other way to guess.
We don't live in a computational universe. https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not...
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Interestingly, Minecraft only added redstone to explicitly allow logic gates after users had found out how to create them out of flowing water and other select blocks.
Minecraft construction is weird. Minecraft's reason for existing is that people think it's fun to make simple things mind-numbingly hard by using the crudest lowest-level building blocks, each block simualting with horridly monstrous gobs of computing powes). So it's the worst of both worlds -- an expensive simulator for tediously manipulting low-level primitives. Why not manipulate primivitives efficiently, or use h…
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Minecraft construction is weird. Minecraft's reason for existing is that people think it's fun to make simple things mind-numbingly hard by using the crudest lowest-level building blocks, each block simualting with horridly monstrous gobs of computing powes). So it's the worst of both worlds -- an expensive simulator for tediously manipulting low-level primitives. Why not manipulate primivitives efficiently, or use h…
To actually answer your question: Barrier of Entry.
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Is there some distinction to be made between Turing machines with tapes of fixed capacity, and ones whose capacities are limited by their execution substrate, such that they’ll support as much memory as they are “given” by the environment? I’m picturing here the difference between Turing machines in the Game of Life that take place on a fixed area of the grid, vs. ones that attempt to just index out to whatever grid…
Turing machine has unbounded memory. There is a difference between unbounded and unlimited memory: You can extend the tape as needed, but at any given step of computation, the used space is finite. A Turing machine with bounded memory is called linear bounded automaton. Although LBA is less powerful than a Turing machine in the absolute sense, it is not trivial to form a problem that a Turing machine could decide but…
I could very well be dead wrong about this, but isn't any game that allows you to construct the equivalent of a transistor turing-complete with enough work?
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Don't forget the $150 dlc, that is probably not included. And the base game is pretty minimal