On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 05:06:46PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > The engineering tolerance of the brain must be finite (and far higher than > the Planck level) if we are to survive from moment to moment, and that > implies there are only a finite number of possible brains and hence mental > states. >
Steady on, I don't think it does that at all, unless you constrain the physical world to be bounded somehow in both space and time. I think you were just trying to say that the space of brains (and mental states) is discrete, something I could agree with. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
