On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:50:52AM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > Very nice explanation Cory... my opinion is that holographic storage, > used to store and recover 1's and 0's is digital. If we can TCP/IP with > bongo drums or carrier pigeons, them it seems the message, not the > medium, is the critical factor in determining digital vs. analog, IMHO. Yes, if we use it to store 0's and 1's. However, a holographic image stored on a holographic plate is not 0's and 1's. Similarly neither is a memory stored in the brain. I extend this further to suggest that much future information (indeed much current information) can be stored in other than 0's and 1's format. Current information as I stated before such as audio, video and graphics.
> While I agree that DNA contains the *information*, the process cannot > begin, or be completed (organic life) without a suitable virtual machine > or environment such as Earth 1.0 or better. My personal opinion is that > we may require something more than environment in which to run our > programs, as well -- something loosely defined as a community, which may > be thought of as a context (in terms of allowing self-reference, group > identity, and differentiation. This has to do with unix/gnu linux > because of the stretch I've made to add computing analogies to a thread > which was originally about computing but then digressed into high > science. Code can't run itself, and holographic storage is not useful > without us, or at least sufficiently advanced Aibos and Furbys. I agree here too that even holographic storage is not useful without us. However that wasn't my point. I described an internet with an amazing amount of storage, an amazing number of nodes and connections with zero time transmission and holographic storage mechanisms (break a plate in two and get two apples not two halves). Such is a potential accurate representation of a brain. Information is stored and retrieved by three-dimensional interference patterns spread around the entire internet in near zero time, just like it is when burning or reading a holographic plate, and how it is believed by some the way the brain works. As far as the internet waking up, who knows... the above environment may provide the physical complexity to house a consciousness. Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
