On 9/13/2019 3:25 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 3:28 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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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.
Fortunately, 30 July 1939 doesn't got to infinity. It stays the same.
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 2^M.
By that kind of reasoning the universe will revisit previous states and
there's no meaning to "immortality". But there's still obvious meaning
to living a 10,000yrs vs 100yrs.
Brent
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