axis@trinidad.net wrote (August 20, 1997):
" Dear Dr. Sarfatti,
I have written to you previously on the utility of a semiotic viewpoint in getting PQM straight. Later, I have written on the idea that the "Universe-at- large" might consist of "all the information that might ever be" which I identified with "nothing". I suggested that fieldlike functions can configure our specific universe, "filtering" it out of the Universe-at-large either directly, or via a set of "buffer spaces" which would then become a hierarchy of implicate order.
Thus we need only deal with a universe of quantum fields. No beables to confound our postquantum mechanics.
Well you are wrong about that -- at least in the low-energy limit where we exist. You must obey the actual mathematics. Have you read The Undivided Universe? What you are doing is going back to the conventional idea that Hilbert space is everything. Bohm discusses this quite thoroughly in his book which you should read.
"The problem incurred here is that the sheer size of the spaces involved would force us to add to our theories of functions and computation: Some of the "fieldlike functions" referred to may indeed be recursive structures, lending a deep fractal nature to our observable universe. Additionally, computational structures that execute in steps leading to sets which are not just dense, but of higher cardinality than the continuum, might lead to obnoxiously "non-godelian" computation."
"Now, I must lay my cards on the table. I am very much interested in the development of the device you call a "Q-chip". I suppose such a device would exhibit raw consciousness eventually equal to or, much more likely, far surpassing human consciousness. "
Yes, that is the idea.
"A superconscious Q-chip would be able to exploit signal and gravitational nonlocality sufficiently well to act as a "stargate" or "warp drive"; or even configure a neutron star into superconsciousness. So your dual goals might well be one and the same thing. This you know."
Yes, we seem to be getting similar messages! :-)
Exactly, that is the power of the WEB. This may be my Quixotic "Impossible Dream", or it may be correct. Let experiment decide whether this is bona-fide CONTACT with advanced VALIS intelligence, John Lilly's "solid state entities", "The Nine", "conscious computers on space-craft from the future" or just some wacky fun conceptual Psi Fi art - or all of the above :-)
"I also suppose that you are fully aware of how postquantum computers of the kind you envision will impact on the eschatology of Homo sapiens, and perhaps our spacetime universe."
Yes, of course I am. You have seen
" I assume that you realize that, if theoretically possible, weak Q-chips are currently well within the range of micro-fabrication techniques available to late 20th Century civilization. "
Yes, of course. If the people at Intel etc. realized what I have here they would start learning about microtubules and how to emulate them in the solid-state.
"I therefore deduce that you fully appreciate that advent of your Q-chip might be inevitable and imminent; and, at least in the mathematical sense, catastrophic."
"Apre mois, Le Deluge!" (Louis XIV):-)
"What might your initial materials be: semiconductor; conductor or superconductor? Time may be very short."
That is for experimentalists like Ray Chiao et-al to figure out. I am only a "Wandering Minstrel" -- a thing of shreds and patches, ballads, songs and snatches, .. and dreamy lullabies." :-)
your internet student,
Alain Huitdeniers
axis@trinidad.net
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