On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 05:06:46PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > The engineering tolerance of the brain must be finite (and far higher than > the Planck level) if we are to survive from moment to moment, and that > implies there are only a finite number of possible brains and hence mental > states. >
Steady on, I don't think it does that at all, unless you constrain the physical world to be bounded somehow in both space and time. I think you were just trying to say that the space of brains (and mental states) is discrete, something I could agree with. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
