What are the chances that a form of virtual reality as good as the Star Trek holodeck will be invented and when? Around 2000 there was an article about...
9300
Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jul 8, 2004 12:45 pm
... From: "Arthur" <northlanderuk@...> ... Yes and no :-) The holodeck relies on some sort of force fields or tractor beams to make the 3D images...
9301
G-H
g-h@...
Jul 8, 2004 12:45 pm
... From: "Arthur" <northlanderuk@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:18 AM Subject: Star Trek Holodeck ... ...
9302
Karl Stiefvater
qarl
Jul 8, 2004 11:47 pm
i'm sure you'll get reasonable answers to your question - so allow me to give you the (unreasonable) F.O.R. version: in some universes, holodecks have already...
9303
OllyHardy@...
godisflawed
Jul 8, 2004 11:49 pm
In a message dated 7/8/04 8:47:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... From: "Arthur" <northlanderuk@...> ... While 50 years is almost certainly a stretch,...
9304
Giu1i0 Pri5c0
pgptag
Jul 10, 2004 12:16 am
I am following the video course of DD: http://cam.qubit.org/video_lectures/index.php Only the first six lectures are available online, I wish to know if and...
9305
Frank Cizmich
logical@...
Jul 10, 2004 12:17 am
A poll (may be a bit off-topic) What will the first super-human intelligence be like? a) Machine b) Genetically manipulated humans c) other...
9306
Frank Cizmich
logical@...
Jul 10, 2004 12:17 am
Another vote for brain manipulation. By the time technology is ready to provide us with a real "holodeck";, we'll already be having VR dreams provided by Matrix...
9307
OllyHardy@...
godisflawed
Jul 10, 2004 1:18 pm
In a message dated 7/9/04 8:17:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... In fact, some would argue that with the advent of the internet, we are already in the era of...
9308
OllyHardy@...
godisflawed
Jul 10, 2004 1:20 pm
In a message dated 7/9/04 8:17:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... We will never be replaced by 'machines'. Rather, we will become 'machines', because 'machines'...
9309
Ardeshir Mehta
ardeshirmehta
Jul 11, 2004 12:18 am
... There's no reason why the machines of the future must be 'mechanical' (and, presumably, hard as nails). They may, for all we know, be carbon-based and...
9310
Frank Cizmich
logical@...
Jul 11, 2004 12:18 am
... access to ... without. ... at ... creature - ... How about having the aliens compare someone who spends a lot of time ´googling´ with another guy who...
9311
Frank Cizmich
logical@...
Jul 11, 2004 12:18 am
... 'machines', ... afforded > by fragile, mortal biological matter. We will not be passing the baton to ... So specifically, the first form of superhuman...
9312
Cristina van Blommest...
cristinavan
Jul 11, 2004 1:01 pm
... I am reading David Deutsch's book The fabric of reality and have a question regarding the following: "Interference between 2 universes requires an...
9313
Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jul 11, 2004 11:54 pm
... From: <OllyHardy@...> ... access to ... without. ... at ... creature - ... Actually, some would argue that we reached the point of superhuman ...
9314
Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jul 11, 2004 11:54 pm
... From: "Ardeshir Mehta" <ardeshir@...> ... Well, given that we're machines (admittedly of a particularly complicated sort - but not more...
9315
Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jul 11, 2004 11:54 pm
... To get interference you prepare a particle so that it has many versions by putting it through double slits or whatever and arrange for the different ...
9316
Giu1i0 Pri5c0
pgptag
Jul 12, 2004 1:25 pm
I think, probably a machine. Later we should see merges of human and machines, with superhuman intelligence and other interesting features....
9317
Szabo
betobozo
Jul 12, 2004 11:08 pm
I think we will be super-human intelligence when we fully understand the multiverse. I hope, before the Omega Point, when WE will be very different from...
9318
Nicole Barberis
nbarberis
Jul 13, 2004 3:12 pm
In Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Cizmich" ... like? ... Definately a genetically manipulated human. Why start from scratch! You did specify...
9319
Roger Davies
roger.davies@...
Jul 13, 2004 3:15 pm
I have always thought that the concept of AI as residing in some machine, or not, was a bit besides the point. Surely it can reside in systems, which can have...
9320
Frank
logical@...
Jul 13, 2004 11:50 pm
Thanks for the thoughtfull responses I'll include some of the new options on the list What will the first super-human intelligence be like? a) Machine b)...
9321
Brian Scurfield
brianscurfield
Jul 13, 2004 11:52 pm
... Once, in a lecture on consciousness (are cats/snails/microbes conscious?) I put the cat amongst the pigeons by asking whether languages could be regarded...
9322
Bob Cain
arcane@...
Jul 14, 2004 12:39 pm
... How does this differ from Feynman's sum over histories? Or is it just an "explanation" of why that works? Bob -- "Things should be described as simply as...
... The MWI works for every formulation of quantum mechanics. What is at issue is what sort of structure reality has according to quantum physics. So the ...
9325
cristinavan
Jul 15, 2004 12:29 pm
... at issue ... So the ... states that ... existing ... another unders osme circumstances. Do we have to take this seriously?' The answer is that we ... Ok,...
9326
Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jul 15, 2004 11:43 pm
... I don't think the interference is normally visible at the "macroscopic" level unless you use a clever experiment (like the 2 slits) to magnify it. There...
9327
Lee Corbin
lcorbin@...
Jul 16, 2004 4:19 pm
Christina wrote ... and Charles wrote (hi Charles!) ... Well, don't I correctly remember David Deutsch's statement in Fabric of Reality that any given,...
9328
Cristina
cristinavan
Jul 18, 2004 12:05 am
... Hi Lee: Can you expand on that. ... ...would also be correct. But can anyone else explain or expand on this Cristina...
