X-Message-Number: 14883 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:02:22 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Turing Tome brief comment Pat Clancy, #14878, commenting on the Turing Tome problem (see my posting #14875): >I don't think you have to invoke immortality, but I agree part of the problem >with the Tome is that is must be infinite, Yes, I think you do, at least for the more interesting cases. The Tome could record a person's conscious states over a finite time interval only and thus presumably be finite (at most 10^53 state changes per second per human by the Bekenstein bound, remember?). It seems the Tome would have to be infinite (impossible in the world as we know it) only if we assume infinitely many conscious states, i.e. immortality, or some other infinity of details. I like your other comments, though. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14883