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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: *IF*?
Message-ID: <930@garth.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 00:40:44 GMT
References: <58.22CCF148@isishq.UUCP> <2292@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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In article <2292@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <58.22CCF148@isishq.UUCP>, doug@isishq.UUCP (Doug Thompson) writes:
>> Thus a quantum leap in technology is needed, a different kind of 
>> computer, to even begin to process data of any sort (even mathematical 
>> data) the way the human mind processes data. 
>
>Not at all... you can do it with heavy use of brute force. First you need
>to have a program that will model reality down to the quantum level.

See also comp.lang.c. It is an open question if all space-time events can
be sufficiently modelled by a discrete computer. It may be difference between
aleph-0 and aleph-1 sets which is a tremendous (actually infinite) increase
in complexity.