X-Message-Number: 15223
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:42:58 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Persons, Computerizations, Timing Issue

Thomas Donaldson, #15211, says:
>As for Mike Perry, he seems to completely ignore the point that for us NOW,
>the possibility that someday, through advances in software only, we can
make a >version of ourselves that will work as fast as we do. That version,
if done in >PRESENT time rates, will necessarily HAVE to be parallel. 

There's something funny about your first sentence (by the way, your message
came in with other strange things that I corrected as best I could). But the
general sense of this plus the next one seems to be that any technique for
making a computerized version of our selves that "works as fast as we do"
anytime soon will necessarily involve some parallelism. If that's what you
mean, no argument! But I don't "completely ignore this point" (if that's
also what you are trying to say). In fact, three times in my message of Nov.
27 I put in the disclaimer that there I was not considering the issue of a
system running in realtime but only a more general case where we allow for
the possibility of slower execution times. This does not mean I consider
this issue unimportant, however! That said, I really don't think there is
any important disagreement in our different points of view.

Best to you and to all,
Mike Perry

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