X-Message-Number: 10588
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:04:31 -0700
From: Hara Ra <>
Subject: Message #10573

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>Opponents see often problems, where problems do not exist. Processing
power is 
>no problem, as myriads of nanomachines will cooperate. It has been shown
that 
>cellular automatons (systems of primitive automatons (e.g. with two states), 
>each of which can communicate only with a limited number (e.g. four) 
>neighbours) can do everything an universal turing machine can do (if the 
>number of machines in the cellular automaton is not limited) and in most
cases 
>much faster. A turing machine can solve every task which can be solved by an 
>information processing machine (however complex). 
>The processing power of a system of nanomachines will not depend on the 
>processing power of one machine. One bit storage capazity in each machine
will 
>be enough. The machines can be molecules, if necessary. (Nature uses
molecules 
>e.g. enzymes for complex tasks.) The processing power of the system will 
>depend on the number of machines and this number can be very great.

Nobody builds Turing Machines. They are very, very, very slow, and to do
practical computing tasks takes a long, long, long tape. I do want to get
out of the Dewar before the stars go out....


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