Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David A. Honig) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Honest Questions For An Honest Cryonicist Keywords: Turing, Life the Universe and Chaos Message-ID: Date: 22 Dec 89 02:05:24 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 24 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) writes: > > If you are a infinitely fined grained chaotic dynamic structure, then >freezing you isn't going to do much good. > > Otherwise you're a Turing machine, and might as well wake up in >hardware. Um, if you are "infinitely fine grained", ie you require real-numbers, *infinite* precision, then you're not a Turing machine regardless of whether you're *chaotic* or not. Of course, if you are chaotic, you better have infinite precision... Or if I'm wrong, would someone please explain why? -- David A. Honig ... "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [The original comments were presumeably tongue-in-cheek... However, let me reccomend Penrose's new book, "The Emperor's New Mind", to those interested in the subject. --JoSH]