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rck ◴[23 Sep 25 21:38 UTC] No.45353089[source]▶

This feels like the kind of popsci that's written for people who already agree with the author - there's nothing resembling an argument, or even a definition of "computation." There are nods to Church-Turing, but the leap from "every effectively calculable function is computable" to "life is a computation" is larger than anything you could fit in a book.

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1. bgwalter ◴[23 Sep 25 21:42 UTC] No.45353134[source]▶

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I felt reminded of Hofstadter's Goedel/Escher/Bach mysticism that somehow everything is recursion.

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2. anthk ◴[23 Sep 25 21:56 UTC] No.45353271[source]▶

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Self-simulation.

3. AfterHIA ◴[23 Sep 25 23:55 UTC] No.45354416[source]▶

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I might not be a strange loop but I am indeed strange.

4. emmelaich ◴[24 Sep 25 03:03 UTC] No.45355828[source]▶