On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You said "QUANTUM THEORY REALLY HAS NOTHING DIRECTLY TO DO WITH > UNCOMPUTABILITY."
Please don't quote people using this style, it hurts my eyes. > But quantum theory does appear to be directly related to limits of the > computations of physical reality. The uncertainty theory and the > quantization of quantum states are limitations on what can be computed by > physical reality. I don't even know what you're saying here. Maybe you're trying to say that it takes a really big computer to compute a very small box of physical reality.. which is true.. I just don't know why you would be saying that. > You said " IT IS CERTAINLY THINKABLE THAT THE BRAIN IS INFINITE NOT FINITE > IN ITS INFORMATION CONTENT, OR THAT IT'S A SORT OF "ANTENNA" THAT RECEIVES > INFORMATION FROM SOME INFINITE-INFORMATION-CONTENT SOURCE " > > This certainly is "thinkable." And that is a non-trivial statement. We > should never forget that our concepts of reality could be nothing but > illusions, and that our understanding of science and physical reality may be > much more partial and flawed than we think. It's also completely unscientific. You might as well say that magic pixies deliver your thoughts from big invisible bucket made of gold. > But, I am old fashioned enough to be more interested in things about the > brain and AGI that are supported by what would traditionally be considered > "scientific evidence" or by what can be reasoned or designed from such > evidence. So why are you entertaining notions of magic antennas to God? > If there is any thing that would fit under those headings to support the > notion of the brain either being infinite, or being an antenna that receives > decodable information from some infinite-information-content source, I would > love to hear it. I wouldn't. It's untestable non-sense. Trent ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=120640061-aded06 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
