From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 15:13:11 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Not according to certain thinkers, including Amara G. who has the Ph.D. in
> Physics to buttress this notion (I f I am not misrepresenting her viewpoint).
While I'm a great fan of Amara (in fact, even in the plural) a point made
is orthogonal to the degree of the point-maker.
> I have been pretty driven by the conjecture that there is (somehow) a
> possible recording matrix for which all activity/information is arbitrarily
> recoverable. But then I also thought that there would be a moonbase by now.
Information gets lost in the real world.
> Hence the Hyper-computer being hypothetically possible to recover life
> people, and epochs from oblivion. (Yeah, right, shrug).
Oh, you mean infinite computation. I don't think there's such a thing,
now that we know Tipler has been smoking crack when he wrote
the Physics of Immortality. I thought you meant Omega-grade
computronium, which is quite impressive for sure, but
still infinitely remote from the Omega point.
The best storage medium is you verbatim. If you can't make it alive,
try it with a frozen head.
-- Eugen* Leitl
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