From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Oct 17 1996 - 07:50:54 MDT
On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Robin Hanson wrote:
> We
> know which systems are exchanging bits with each other, and how fast,
> and where this arrangement changes, etc.
...
> To me, the idea that this circuit diagram is actually an
> optimum design for an advanced computer seems completely crazy.
What about the quantum level? Might the "random" fluctuations on the
near-Planckian level be the real level of activity? We, and most of the
matter around us, is just high-level side-effects of low-level processing
in the vacuum state. Are there any special reasons this might or might
not hold?
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