RE: the Duplication Chamber

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 07:24:22 MST


owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Lee Corbin wrote:
>
>> At time t0=0 seconds there is still one entity. At time
>> t1=10^-43 seconds there are 1000. Please explain in more
>> detail how any neuron could have fired in that period of time.
>
> Sure. Time t0 is exactly 10^-43 seconds prior to the moment at which
> the neuron fires.
>
> In other words, at t1 we have 1000 entities, each observing a
> different reality.
> At t1 minus 10^-43 seconds we are exactly 10^-43 seconds before that
> event in time.
>
### At t1 not a single neuron has fired yet (by forty orders of magnitude ,
200 Hz v. 10e43 Hz). No entity is observing anything. Which one is you?

This exemplifies how far off mark you are - forty orders of magnitude.

Rafal



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