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For Discussion: History (time) is immutable storage

1 points by fishanz ↗ HN
Just one of those open-ended tangential thoughts: So are beings programs? Memories (corrupted) copies of 'the storage? Where else does this idea lead? Certainly it's been conceptualized before...right?

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dalke
We don't know if information is immutable, else we wouldn't have the black hole information paradox. Nor do we know if history was created last Thursday.

We can be programs, if you used "program" metaphorically to include time evolution of quantum determinism. We aren't programs in the sense that we haven't been shown to be equivalent to a Turing machine, in anything other than their abstract ability to simulate quantum determinism.

Your use of "corrupted" suggests you think there is an ideal concept of information. There's no shadow in Plato's cave. If we are programs in the quantum determinism sense then our memories are perfect descriptions of our memories, not corrupted representations of some past.