Re: Computational complexity of "running" the multiverse - errata

From: Eric Hawthorne <egh.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:45:40 -0800

Eric Hawthorne wrote:

> So probably, the "extra-universal" notion of "computing all the
> universe simulations" is not traditional computation
> at all. I prefer to think of the state of affairs as being that the
> multiverse substrate is just kind of like a
> very large, passive qubitstring memory, capable of holding the qubits,
> that is of exhibiting, if appropriately
> queried, the different bit values in the information states (all 10 ^
> 148 information-states in the histories of
> universes as big and old as ours, that is.)

Correction:

That last part should read: (all 2 ^ (10 ^ 88) information states that
could be the instantaneous
state of all possible universes as big and old as ours, that is.)

Eric
Received on Sat Jan 17 2004 - 20:48:46 PST