From: Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 09 1996 - 19:16:53 MDT
On Sep 9, 4:28am, Chris Hind wrote:
} What if we were to assimilate all the resources of planet earth and make a
} molecular map of the Earth inside a virtual world so that you could let the
} ecology run free without all the people but the real material Earth would
Uh, molecular map? A VR of the Earth down to the molecular level? In
what medium, pray tell? Molecular circuits and memory?
You can't simulate reality in greater detail than reality.
Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
"The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There
are many dead languages, but the sociologist's is the only language that
was dead at birth."
-- Russell Baker, _So This is Depravity_
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