I can't see much difference between "calculating power" and
"information processed", but what you seem to be saying is that
communication is more important than computation. If I understand
you correctly, I agree with you on the abstract point.
I don't understand the part where you seem to be insisting that
money and trade are not modes of communication. It's obvious to me
that these are indispensable modes of communication.
> Not infinite power, but infinite knowledge is probably the
> purpose of any such entity.
Can you explain to us what the difference between these two
things is? Or are you engaging in empty rhetoric?
-- Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd