Brent Meeker writes: > >>>This may be coincidental, but I think not. Your PC is engineered to > >>>avoid the effects of chaos to prevent this very thing occurring. Why > >>>wouldn't nature do the same thing unless it were deliberately trying > >>>to exploit randomness? > >> > >>In nature there's no reason to depend on amplifying quantum randomness - > >>there's > >>plenty of "random" environmental input to keep our brains from getting > >>stuck in loops. > > > > > > And even without environmental input, unlike digital computers, brains have > > enough "noise" > > to keep from going into loops. Poincare recurrence won't kick in until long > > after the brain > > has turned to dust. > > I'm not sure that's true. As I recall during the sensory-deprivation fad in > the late > 60's it was reported than people in a sensory-deprivation tank for an > extended period > (hour+) had their thoughts go into loops.
Maybe so, but there is no theoretical reason why a brain could not run a very, very long time before it starts repeating physical states. Stathis Papaioannou _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
