On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">KAZ</b> <<a href="mailto:kazvorpal@yahoo.com">kazvorpal@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OR, perhaps, that's simply a limitation of your own (and my) imagination and knowledge.<br><br>Perhaps...in
fact, I'd say it's pretty likely...there are ways to develop technology
and measure intelligence which you have I simply haven't anticipated,
yet.<br><br>Or heck, perhaps it simply runs simulated universe models.</blockquote><div><br>
A computer the size of the galaxy wouldn't be powerful enough to
simulate a single protein molecule, much less a single living cell, in
the absence of feedback from real world laboratory experiments. (The
required computing power is exponential in the number of electrons and
nuclei involved. That doesn't mean simulations aren't useful, but it
does mean they are only complements, not replacements, for laboratory
work.)<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Any
time someone says "even technology can't do that", about something
other than the most extreme cases (speed of light, leaving this n-brane
to explore a 11 dimensional containing universe), what they're really
saying is "I lack the imagination to suppose that there's a way to do
that which hasn't been invented yet".<br>
</blockquote></div><br>
Actually it doesn't stop at the extreme cases. You can say "maybe there
are ways to do X which you and I simply haven't anticipated yet" for
absolutely any value of X. Here, I'll prove it: What if there are ways
to travel faster than light or explore the 11 dimensional universe
which you and I simply haven't anticipated yet? See how easy that was?
Heck, what if there are ways to talk to ghosts or build a perpetual
motion machine or cast a magic spell to fly on a broomstick which you
and I simply haven't anticipated yet?<br>
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It is precisely because "what if there are ways which you and I simply
haven't anticipated yet" can be used in absolutely all cases, that its
information content in any particular case is zero.<br>