Re: [PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life

2005-03-17 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, The matrix is a fantasy about creating versimultudenous world to keep humans busy thinking so they provide electricity. It is waste of time, resources, and energy to make a plausible world wide amusement park for humans to lie around (in the movie) to participate in. That's

[PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life

2005-03-16 Thread Chris Burford
I can't state an abstract principle as to why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life. [see thread between Charles and Ravi below] My chip in on this is that the granularity of connections and the probability of any next connection depolarising and passing a stimullation onto the next neurone