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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 10:07:31 EST
Subject: Clancy, brief comment

Pat Clancy (#14969) writes, in part:

>A Turing machine cannot implement [calculate?] quantum reality; 

I don't know why not (although of course not in real time). A human 
mathematician with enough pencils and paper and longevity could, in 
principle, eventually find successive quantum states of any system, so a 
Turing computer could also, to any desired degree of accuracy. I and others 
have pointed out other problems, of course.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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