Born to do Math 102 – All Together Now: Hows and Whys as “As If”
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2019/01/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I am getting the sense of the why questions being how questions. Why do we have minds? Because of evolution. How that? If chemistry, then biology, then minds, eventually. So, what you’re tapping into is, really, the bridge between those how questions and how they extend more into a why?
Rick Rosner: I kind of think everything boils down to consciousness and information spaces, and also the larger physical processes of the universe. They are “as if” questions. The information of the universe at large and the information of mental worlds.
Both the large information processing structures and the small ones do a lot of stuff that behaves as if they know stuff. The “as if” is enough to embody actual knowing. If you set it up right, it’s information processing capacity is far mre than straight up serial processing with integrated circuits clacking along.
It is a setup – the quantum computers – in as if systems. You set up indeterminate states that behave as if in multiple states for a computational purpose. If everything is in an as if state, then everything is in 3-bit quantum computer that runs as if in 8 different states, and then is consistent across all 8 states.
Something like that; I don’t know. It seems as if there is a tacitness, an as ifness. The efficiency of as if information, as if knowledge, and as if knowledge-sharing probably exists in the universe at large and in individual minds at the small.
Becuase it is persistently efficient.
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