Re: "analog computer" = useless hypothesis?

From: Jim Fehlinger (fehlinger@home.com)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 19:32:27 MDT


Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> J. R. [Molloy] writes:

> > If life coded itself into the quantum geometry of space itself, wouldn't that... ?
>
> It's also a new opportunity for our massively remote descendents to inhabit
> a "new" realm of reality (if true) and lead to enormous resources, that can be
> used for computability, as Smolin seems to be suggesting.

And as explored in vivid detail by Greg Egan in _Permutation City_
and _Diaspora_.

Jim F.



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