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Re: http://ontologicalwarfare.com/blog/quantumbrain.html

Anselm Levskaya — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:15:48 -0000

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Re: Who Would Survey the Library of Babel?

anselm — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:10 -0000

@Mike:
It is of course infinite if one allows for arbitrarily large books and shelves. But that is less the point than the sheer size of the potentiality manifold of a simple book, which contains quite a modest amount of static information.

Re: The Measure of a Mind

watson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:46:34 -0000

crazy ... i just gave a series of talks to middle schoolers and high schoolers on "brains, information and mathematics". we counted # of neurons and # synaptic connections etc. and used information theory (although in a different way ... looking at information in spikes instead...).

see: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~w...

Re: Who Would Survey the Library of Babel?

Mike Kayton — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:30:21 -0000

... So the size of the meta universe is infinite because we can always add more shelves to the galleries, and devise alphabets with more than 25 letters, etc.