On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:31:25AM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 27 March 2014 11:30, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > I think infinite in time but not space implies a Nietzschean eternal > recurrence? Which makes said brain effectively finite (well, "merely" > limited to all possible brains, so only finite after it's lived every > possible life available to any being, anywhere - or experienced all the > pigeonholes up to whatever the Beckenstein brain bound is, probably quite a > lot). >
Discuss what this means for Tipler's Omega point (finite amount of space, but an infinite amount of computation). Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
