On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 8:25 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 3:28 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't have to remember everything that happened over 80yrs to know I'm >> 80yrs old. In fact I only need to remember my birthday. >> >> > To know your birthday requires log(n) bits, which goes to infinity as n > goes to infinity. > Rubbish. I just have to look at my birth certificate! > Without an ever expanding memory, you are limited to experiencing at most > M^2 states, where M is your memory capacity in bits. If M is finite, then > infinite years don't matter, you will begin to revisit previous states. > That assume that in order to survive you have to remember everything that ever happened to you. And that is such obvious nonsense that it doesn't merit a rebuttal. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRuQ7y-MEX9WB-YYr-cYaY18P6xpN-fS%2B8L9ng%3DK-nJ6A%40mail.gmail.com.
