From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 07:17:56 MDT
On Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:40 AM Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it
wrote:
> What I find depressing is that even a (supposed)
> technical-savy audience like slashdot is coming
> up with statements like:
>
> - you cannot simulate a human mind
> - you cannot simulate an entire planet
> - you cannot generate a 3D VR good enough to fool the human eye (!)
Maybe this wasn't a rhetorical "you," but they were speaking to a
specific individual.:) Maybe they were confusing "can" and "may.":)
But seriously, I'm surprised too. If what's meant is that something
might be left out of any such simulation, fair enough, but I tend to
think these people mean it's not possible to build stuff that's close
enough.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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