12-03-2016, 11:41 PM
(12-03-2016, 11:06 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is nothing impossible in the world, the matter is that of the probability.
As I said above (or, rather, as Ockham said a bit earlier), entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity. Is there the real necessity for the VMS to contain the notion of a cell and cell division? Why cell division, to begin with?
What Occam said applied to theories and assumptions. I think for purposes of our discussion we can allow that the assumption that if you write a book it contains information is the assumption that multiplies the fewest entities. Occam doesn't really apply to the contents though. The probability of a book having any specific content is irrelevant once you've determined the actual content. This being the case the probability of a book having any specific content is irrelevant before you have determined the content as well. The content doesn't change just because your understanding of it changes. VMS has no requirement to have any particular content at all. If someone can make a case for cell division I'm willing to consider it. It's really a long way from being the craziest interpretation of VMS I've heard, "Atlantis anyone?".
All that said though, at this point I'm only willing to consider the possibility. I may revise that when I get a better grip on generation rules, prefixes, suffixes, just how many assumptions are necessary to get any semantics and any additional methodology used.

