William Hahn
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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that the the idea of a universal machine, right, that that Turing established, which is a machine that can simulate any other machine.
It's a machine that runs software.
And in that software programming you can get this this universal machine to simulate the behavior of any other machine.
And in the early days of computing it seems like uh computers were
very delicate human artifacts that took a lot of engineering work to put together.
But what Wolfram showed with his cellular automata research
is that it's relatively easy to stumble upon uh a system that's complex enough to support universal computation.
that he has this breakdown of of sort of four different classes of a ta he uses automata as the case study.
Бахіар'с да ані систем дать обістний сим.
Any system that's sort of interesting in its dynamics, um, the majority of the time that's gonna support universal computation.
So in other words that
There's these natural computers all throughout nature.
And previously we didn't recognize them or understand them as computational objects.
I think that's what's just so interesting about this new era of maybe what we might call philosophy, um, is that we have this new language.
We can we can invoke the metaphor of a computer and software and program and universality, where um as we've spoken.
Spoke last time, the best minds on the planet didn't have access to those to those thinking tools.
And so if that's really true that there's these computer-like objects all over the place, and now we have computer-like objects that might be uh instantiating consciousness, namely a a GPU running a large language model, which obviously would be highly debated whether or not that's conscious or not.
Um but if we take that in the abstract sense and extrapolate that out a decade or so, uh to me it's
it's clear that w we will have a hard time, or it might be fruitless to argue whether they are or not, because they'll be so similar to the kinds of things that we see in in humans.
Um
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