From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 13:55:20 MDT
I have to rectract my statement. Some interesting comments are being
written, and someone is speculating that Quantum effects (and the whole
QM) is an artifact of experiments reaching the maximum "resolution" of the
simulation.
I'm in no position to judge the merits, but it's a kinda fun thought...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66105&cid=6089987
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66105&cid=608933900
Ciao,
Alfio
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Technotranscendence wrote:
>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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