> From: Samantha Atkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Indeed. Some form of instaneous information transfer would be > required for unlimited growth. If it also turned out that true time > travel was possible then things would get really spooky. Alpha and > Omega. Mind without end. >
I think that it is going to be constrained by the speed of light especially in the very beginning and especially if it is software based. Nanotechnological AGI may be able to figure out a way to, if it is not engineered initially, to transform itself from a super atomic embodiment to a subatomic, quantum or sub quantum embodiment and potentially thwart the speed of light and even communicate and/or transfer/replicate to other multiverses. I don't know if intermultiverse communication is constrained by speed of light, I think that it is not depending on the multiverse instance and communication medium. But initially software AGI is most definitely constrained. If it's going to become more efficient intelligence-wise within physical and computational resource constraints it will need to come up with better "stuff" mathematically/algorithmically. And the mathematical constraint space is limited by other factors. The thing is definitely constrained if it cannot alter its physical medium (electronic - CPU, memory, etc.). How much intelligence and knowledge can be achieved with particular amount of resource is up to debate I believe. But if intelligence has units you could probably figure out how much intelligence maximally would fit into a finite resource set... John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=79919689-d86a31
