Re: Can if life effect cosmic development and is a supertask possable?

On 16 Jun 2013, at 16:41, john wrote:

> Can life or any physical action effect the future outcome of the  
> universe's physical development.
>
> Could life drastically change the course of the universe and stop  
> the heat death.
>
> I do think life (intelligence) can change many things but can life  
> steer the universe into a different end? Is a supertask impossible?
>
Assuming such a universe exist, you might need supermoney, and ...  
Superman.




>
> I have just barely grasped "background independence" and it has made  
> me more likely to accept things happening beyond human conception  
> and reality being much larger since everything is a process. With is  
> saying to me everything is software there is no hardware.
>
This follows logically (+occam) from the computationalist theory of  
mind. It makes physical reality appears from number relations, seen  
from the relative first person point of view.

Arithmetic contains a web of dreams in which we are infinitely  
distributed, and the question of knowing if this defined an unique  
multiverse, or a cluster of multiverses, or something more complex, is  
open (hard math).






>
> Lastly is there any physical transformation or physical processes  
> that cannot be visually represented? I have been thinking about this  
> for a long time.
>
That question is unclear. We can always visualize partially anything  
we point too. Then we know that in arithmetic we have already the non  
computable, the non provable, the non definable, and if you define  
enough well what you mean by "visually representable" you can bet that  
there will be infinities of non visually representable things.

Bruno


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