On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:31:25AM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 27 March 2014 11:30, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> 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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
