From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 08:49:47 MDT
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:59:50PM +1000, Damien Broderick,
responding to my comments, brought in in Greg Egan's estimates
that an exabyte of information were required for a human based
on my following comment.
> > At 05:13 PM 4/8/03 -0700, Robert wrote:
> >
> > >the problem does arise that the atomic structure of the
> > >human body is a *large* amount of information -- I've
> > >never done the calculation
To which Anders responded:
> Freitas has of course done it:
> http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Ch03_1.html
Actually, it was only *part* of it -- Anders needed to
put some more meat on the bones.] I did know that the Freitas
data would be the starting point but was being lazy....
[snip much more of Anders' great analysis]
The *nice* thing about the ExI List is that on its really
good days you can hand out fishing rods and some worms
and what you get back is some really finely prepared sushi.
:-)
Robert
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