Re: Immortality

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 19:11:11 MST


Steve Nichols wrote:

> Exactly ..... whereas evolvable circuitry machines (silicon or biological)
> can be or approach infinite-state. The mammalian brain is infinite-state
> in a way that a simple thermostat, or even a massive Turing machine,
> cannot.

I had not heard the news that brains were infinite-state. Last I
heard, atoms were all finite-state, so a finite clump of atoms must
necessarily be finite-state.

The brain has very very many possible states, but it is no more
infinite state than a hundred billion thermostats would be
infinite-state, if you wired them all together in an interesting way.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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