Its a good point. Dawkins was just suggesting a hypothesis. Humans look for limits and somehow beat them, given enough time effort. Hypercomputing looks plausible to me. Theres a fair amount of papers at ARXIV that write about this kind of thing.
I don't know if god-like intelligences are possible in our universe, it's possible the laws of physics don't allow it. There are a lot of known / suspected limitations on computation for example, and a god that couldn't at least perform hypercomputations isn't really godlike IMHO. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jun 25, 2014 6:43 pm Subject: Re: Tyson is not atheist (was Re: So, a new kind of non-boolean, non-digital, computer architecture On 26 June 2014 07:05, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > Or to quote, Richard Dawkins, "Yes, I can imagine there are god-like > intelligences in the universe." Atheist, Agnostic, Believer? Sure. All > three. (Or in other universes, or branches of the level 1 or level 3 mulitverse, or...) I don't know if god-like intelligences are possible in our universe, it's possible the laws of physics don't allow it. There are a lot of known / suspected limitations on computation for example, and a god that couldn't at least perform hypercomputations isn't really godlike IMHO. -- 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. -- 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.
