From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Thu Oct 22 1998 - 11:40:42 MDT
den Otter [neosapient@geocities.com] wrote:
>Bigger is better. Tiny microbe-like posthumans don't stand a
>chance against a
>jupiter brain, neither physically nor intellectually.
How fast can you think when light takes nearly a second to cross
your brain? I don't believe that Jupiter-sized brains will ever
be as useful as some people here imagine, except to the extent
that they can run trillions of uploads in one shared reality.
Mark
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