Re: Living Forever

From: Mikael Johansson (mikael.johansson@wineasy.se)
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 01:13:15 MDT


> Topological theology? And we thought medieval arguments about how many
angels
> could dance on the head of a pin were out there. <g>
>
> - samantha
>
> answer: How ever many angels should in fact exist and have a desire to
dance on
> the head of said pin.

Actually, Anders Sandberg has written a piece (couldn't find it just now;
URI, Anders?) about it, where he takes Quantum Mechanics and Information
Theory into consideration and finds an upper bound on the number of angels.

So it isn't 'How ever many angels ...' :-)

// Mikael Johansson



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