X-Message-Number: 10573 From: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:02:20 EDT Subject: Processing power and German laws In CryoNet #10562 - #10570 Charles Platt wrote: << I would find your categorical statements a little easier to believe if anyone had done a feasibility study using existing macro-scale robots to repair a macro-scale simulation of freezing damage. This is a very reasonable request, since the predicted onboard computing power of nanobots is more modest that the computing power of current desktop systems. But no one has a clue how to "train" macro-scale robots to repair macro-scale damage. Indeed I believe roboticists would tell you that it is impossible using this level of processing power. >> 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. Thomas Nord asked: <<Someone wrote Cryonics is forbidden also in Germany in a mail to me; Is that so meine damen (?) und herren?>> After the German laws all bodies which are not transported into abroad have to be cremated or to be buried in a cemetery. Only the state authorities can allow exceptions. But in the German laws is nothing against the first steps of cryonic suspension. Cryoprotective perfusions and chemical preservations (with following transport into abroad to a cryonics organization or to a place for permafrost interment) have already been arranged by or with the help of German morticians. During the transport the casket with the patient can be cooled with dry ice. Klaus Reinhard <> http://members.aol.com/klausrei/klausrd.htm Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10573