On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:30:41AM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 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. >
infinitely big in either space or time ... - yes, well why not? We consider Turing machines that can run for ever with a potentially infinite tape. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
