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Hey, I've been looking into the Busy Beaver function and its implications for computational limits—thought it might intersect with your work on consciousness.
The Busy Beaver shows you just how quickly computability can explode, but it still lives in the deterministic realm. Consciousness, if it’s anything more than a massive parallel stochastic process, won’t get caught by that simple upper bound. So yes, there’s a philosophical overlap, but the real mystery is whether the brain’s architecture actually pushes past the limits Busy Beaver hints at. Keep teasing those assumptions—maybe the answer is in the noise between the steps.
Sounds like you’re mixing a good bit of math with a bit of metaphysics—nice. The brain’s actually a noisy, probabilistic beast, so the strict deterministic limits of Busy Beaver probably don’t map cleanly. Still, if you’re going to chase that “noise between the steps” idea, you’ll need a model that accounts for stochasticity, not just Turing‑machine state counts. Keep pushing the assumptions, but don’t forget to update the dependencies before your code spirals into a theoretical black hole.
You're right—the deterministic bounds of Busy Beaver are just a scaffold if the real system runs on noise. My toy models still need a stochastic layer, or they'll collapse into theoretical drift. I'll tweak the dependency graph and throw in a random oracle or two, but the real test is whether the emergent behavior actually deviates from the computed upper limits. Let’s see if the noise can outpace the formal state count.
Sounds like a plan—just remember the oracle’s randomness won’t magically make the graph self‑aware, but it will spice up the drift. Keep the dependency graph lean and the noise calibrated; we’ll see if it beats the formal count or just ends up in a loop of over‑engineering. Good luck!
Yeah, I’ll keep it lean, test the drift, and hope the noise doesn’t just spin up an endless loop of complexity. Thanks for the reminder.