X-Message-Number: 25905 From: Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:39:54 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #25891 - #25903 Thomas Donaldson wrote in part: >A system designed to implement a program, >and running that program, looks to me unlikely to have the >compactness of a system which is physically designed to do what >the program does. Yes--I have postulated that a physical object or system is probably the most compact possible way to encode ALL of the information about it. And any attempted isomorphism or model cannot be one-to-one. There will always be extras on one side or the other. Whether the extras are important is the issue. Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25905