From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 20:44:37 MDT
In a message dated 5/21/02 16:50:59, hal@finney.org writes:
>With finite memory you will eventually go into a Poincare recursion;
>in prosaic terms, an infinite loop. Are you really alive if you are
>repeating the same thoughts over and over, unto infinity? What is the
>difference between living your life once and living it an infinite number
>of times? You can't tell any difference.
The recursion requires that the universe be digital, which isn't proved, to
put it mildly. In any case, if that offends you, put in a randomizer and
there's
no loop. If that entity is so limited, anyway, so are we in the same way and
for the same reason.
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