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Article #1392Re: Ed Fredkin
From: Richard Newsome
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 05:06
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 05:06
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Does anyone out there know where I can get more information about Fredkin's ideas? In particular, does anyone know how the billiard-ball computer works? Why can't you program an ordinary computer to emulate it? If it is based on calculating the vectors of the billiard balls to the ten-billionth place after the decimal point, doesn't that conflict with his notion that this is a digital universe...or is he saying that we can store infinite amounts of information in a finite number of bits, by using God as our overflow memory buffer? -- Richard Newsome Big Electric Cat Public UNIX ..!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!newsome
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!newsome From: newsome@dasys1.UUCP (Richard Newsome) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.mag Subject: Re: Ed Fredkin Message-ID: <3633@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 30 Mar 88 05:06:52 GMT References: <3829@chinet.UUCP> Organization: The Big Electric Cat Lines: 15