X-Message-Number: 15042 From: "John de Rivaz" <> References: <> Subject: Re: discreteness and uploading Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:53:24 -0000 Are you sure that for a computer to reflect Many Worlds, it would have to calculate ALL the possible successive "states" and would therefore effectively grind to a halt immediately? Wouldn't it only have to calculate *observed* states? This is how I understand computer games to work, enabling them to contain what is apparently a vast "universe" within computers with finite memory and processing power. (They certainly used to work like that, maybe these days with huge disks and memory capability it isn't necessary any more.) -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt http://www.autopsychoice.com - should you be able to chose autopsy? ----- Original Message ----- > Message #15037 > From: > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:20:27 EST > Subject: discreteness and uploading > But this is not quantum reality! It is just selecting, out of the infinite > possibilities, the one "most probable" succeeding state. For the computer to > reflect quantum reality (as presently understood by most physicists) or to > reflect M any Worlds, it would have to calculate ALL the possible successive > "states" and would therefore effectively grind to a halt immediately. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15042