Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
> Brent Meeker writes (quoting Russell Standish):
>
>
>>>This may be coincidental, but I think not. Your PC is engineered to
>>>avoid the effects of chaos to prevent this very thing occurring. Why
>>>wouldn't nature do the same thing unless it were deliberately trying
>>>to exploit randomness?
>>
>>In nature there's no reason to depend on amplifying quantum randomness - there's
>>plenty of "random" environmental input to keep our brains from getting stuck in loops.
>
>
> And even without environmental input, unlike digital computers, brains have enough "noise"
> to keep from going into loops. Poincare recurrence won't kick in until long after the brain
> has turned to dust.
I'm not sure that's true. As I recall during the sensory-deprivation fad in the late
60's it was reported than people in a sensory-deprivation tank for an extended period
(hour+) had their thoughts go into loops.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Sun Aug 27 2006 - 15:37:55 PDT