From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Jun 17 2001 - 01:43:34 MDT
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>
> 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,
So what happens when some SI down the road a piece figures out
how to transcend space-time in such a way as to revisit any
space-time point in our past and takes an interest in
resurrecting dead sentients? I can't rule that out as a
possibility just yet. Can you?
- samantha
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