On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 09:01:49AM -0500, John Clark wrote: > > Here is an example of something that Everett wrote that Wheeler made him > remove > from his thesis: > > "As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As > time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting > amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have > a life line, but a life tree." > >
Wow - that even predates Bruno Marchal's revelations on amoebas by a few years. See Amoeba's Secret, chapter 2. It's amazing how human thought comes up with the same notions independently around the same time. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/Z3W1YxEqCXGeTTCm%40zen.
