Deborah Harrell wrote: > > A connected article from this one, about the > 'holographic universe' [on page 2], reports that > "information capacity depends on surface area." > This is nice, but it's an _approximation_. The surface of the brain is not a mathematical surface, because it's made of dots - the cells. In a macroscopic approximation, the surface of the brain can be considered a fractal surface, and fractals have the amazing property that a finite volume can contain a surface of infinite area.
Rigorously, the analogy of area and volume [resp. 2D and 3D measures of size] when applied to fractals are things with (n)-D, where 2 < n < 3. Getting back to approximations, it's something like "the surface of my brain measures 0.014 meters^(5/2)" Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
