[extropy-chat] Be[ing] or Not Be[ing]

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:37:17AM -0700, Spike wrote:

> So what is the smallest possible angel?  
> A backhanded way of asking might be: how many 
> angels can dance on a pinhead?

http://moleculardevices.org/howbig.htm

It takes about a structure on bottom left to encode a single bit.

How much bits does an angel need to encode? It depends on your definition of
an angel.

A human should take a sugarcube, or so.
 
> That, my extropian friends, is one hell of a profound question.

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