--- Lee Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Being more specific: intelligences vastly greater than today's might possibly as soon as 2200 A.D. be in a position to design, if they wanted to, a cubic meter of computing material that would simulate the thoughts of everyone currently living in 2005.
Fantastic generalization, Lee! My 1st remark goes for a specification of intelligence, different from the etymological 'inter-lego' version. This. too, belongs to it, as starting condition in an 'understanding' chapter, to 'read' what is not written between the lines (words). I take the 'i' word as an ELASTICITY of a well functioning mind (and what is this?) - not plasticity as Paul Churchland proposed long ago. Prerequists are an extended memory (what is it?) with an advancede ordering of knowledge into the appropriate connotative connections (understanding). The cubic m is not big in terms of 1950 computer hardware, but may work if we sub-pass the Planck sizes. (Way below subminiaturizibg). I would further specify: even if your dream works, politicians would require ~1 cubic mm . John Mikes
