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Marsr is a real story science fiction story

On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 4:35 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> *http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/04/12/transhumanism-and-the-human-expansion-into-space-a-conflict-with-physics/*
>> <http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/04/12/transhumanism-and-the-human-expansion-into-space-a-conflict-with-physics/>
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> *That link doesn't work.*
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>> * > The structures (if they are structures) are 1.5 light seconds across.
>> That implies that their subjective perception of time is about the same as
>> we use .*
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> *I don't think it's as simple as that for two reasons: *
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> *1) The maximum time it takes to send a message from one side of the brain
> to the other is NOT the only factor, another factor that is just as
> important if not more so is the bandwidth of that message channel; and for
> Mr. Jupiter Brain that bandwidth would be many billions or trillions of
> times wider than any biological brain has.*
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> *2) Mr. Jupiter Brain wouldn't need to use His entire brain for simple
> tasks, such as finding the integral of a 4D tensor equation, He would
> probably not be consciously aware of the steps He used to find it nor would
> He need to be, for Him the answer would just be intuitively obvious. In the
> same way a baseball player is not consciously aware of the steps his brain
> used to figure out the split second when he should start to swing his bat,
> he swung it when his intuition told him the time was right.  *
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> *> (again if there are any aliens)*
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> *The events of the last two years have made me even more convinced that ET
> doesn't exist, if he did we'd know by now. *
>
> * John K Clark*
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