[extropy-chat] Is Many Worlds testable?

[Russell Wallace]

On 12/29/06, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
>
> It doesn't matter how fast the consciousness thinks, so just slow it down,
> to the consciousness it will just seem like the world sped up and that's
> not
> relevant to the experiment.  If you slow it down enough you can make the
> brain use an arbitrarily small amount of energy.


You might in principle be able to make it use an arbitrarily small amount of
_power_ (assuming the state of your circuit elements is stable for an
arbitrarily long time, there are no leakage currents etc - AFAIK these
aren't realistic assumptions with known forms of computronium), but running
slower means you have to run longer; what's your proposal for using an
arbitrarily small amount of _energy_?
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