On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Unless you allow brains to grow infinitely big, there are only a finite number of possible brains even in an infinite universe. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
