Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!sri-unix!garth!smryan 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 Lines: 12 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.