From: Ben Goertzel (ben@intelligenesis.net)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 13:19:09 MST
> But the "superintelligent supermind" has more than
> an instinctual
> awareness of the past, but possesses an intrinsic and
> simultaneous awareness
> of the past. Therefore your argument,
>
> "Having compressed, we no longer have access to what we originally
> experienced, only to the compressed form. We have lost some information.",
>
> does not apply.
Well, your "supermind" is more of a supermind than mine.
Mine is just a very very smart computer program, perhaps bioengineered or
whatever,
but still subject to the currently apparent limitations of physical law.
If you posit a supermind that can violate physical law in arbitrary ways,
then of course,
all bets are off...
In other words: Yeah, if the supermind incorporates a time machine without
significant limitations
on its operations, then my conclusion is not valid.
Who knows!! Maybe such a thing will come about. Maybe we're currently
living inside it....
But, short of that, I still say my conclusion holds..
ben
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