From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 08:03:07 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com> writes:
> I would suggest that Anders review the letters I reference. I suspect
> he may have replaced Perry with Keith in his mind (which we should all
> take notice of, since if true, it may be one of those rare errors
> [~once per millennium] to have occured in his computronium matrix :-))
I stand corrected. Ouch, now I have to dissipate 40 kTln2 J to do error
correction :-)
I'll fix it on my website when it is updated (poor Michael, my hired
updater, was found in a corner when I got home from Extro gibbering
"The links! The links! Oh the horror!" :-).
> > I guess Stapledon was the first author to suggest a planet-sized mind,
> > but then again, he was first with a lot of things.
>
> I believe that Dyson has suggested that Stapledon may have known about
> and even borrowed from some of K. Tsiolkovsky's ideas. I've only got
> a little of Tsiolkovsky's work on line at this point and haven't had
> time to read the Stapledon works yet so I can't comment much one way
> or the other.
Did Tsiolkovsky go beyond the merely trans-human level of people in
his writings?
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