Actually,
Sarfatti's not as nutty as people make him out to be... he certainly has
charisma... perhaps he's a bit too forceful ...I just wish he didn't adhere
so adamantly to the Bohmian scenario.
But once we develop quantum computers we'll probably find out: not only will
they handle exponential problems in polynomial time - but they'll probably
(in these weird scenarios) solve Turing Incomputable problems in polynomial
time - or even flat time.
Then, the "smarter" ones would probably be able to access the vacuum and
violate a lot of conservation laws...
There's also a gentleman by the name of Roger Gouin who has some neat ideas
on this stuff (not explicit mysticism)... do a google search uh, Roger Gouin
origin of space ... that should do it...
cymm
-----Original Message-----
From: Spudboy100@aol.com <Spudboy100@aol.com>
To: extropians@extropy.org <extropians@extropy.org>
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Mysticism (WAS) E.S.P. in the Turing Test
>Sure, there are now enough fascinating and differing opinions at this point
>in time to at least keep ourselves open to certain ideas, even though they
>may just be someone's personal conjecture. At some point, according to
>Freeman Dyson, scientists will be able to engineer new machines and thus
>generate new discoveries, to either prove or falsify hypotheses. For a bit
>of intellectual fun, one can go to Dr. Jack Sarfatti's Star Drive
>Website.-http://www.stardrive.org/title.shtml
>Please send me Your paper.
>-Mitch
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