Re: Constraints on "everything existing"

2003-01-20 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
At 08:40 PM 1/17/2003 -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote: John M wrote: Eric: do I detect in your 'circumstances' some 'anthropocentric/metric/logic' restrictions? is the multiverse exclusively built according to the system we devised on this planet as 'our physical laws'? (your 'factor' #1, althou

Re: Constraints on "everything existing"

2003-01-23 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
My comments at the bottom too. Jean-Michel At 08:51 AM 1/22/2003 -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote: My comment at the bottom of the message. Eric Jean-Michel Veuillen wrote: Eric Hawthorne wrote: Unless a world (i.e. a sequence of information state changes) has produced intelligent

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-10 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
There are other possibilities to obtain hypercomputers or Infinite Time Turing Machines: For instance, from general relativity: put a computer in orbit around a black hole, start an infinite computation on it, arrange that the results are sent to you by radio, and jump into the black hole: when

Re: Infinite computing: A paper

2003-02-11 Thread Jean-Michel Veuillen
an-Michel - Original Message - From: "Hal Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:19 PM > Jean-Michel Veuillen writes: > > There are other possibilities to obtain hypercomputers or