Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:38:40 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: silence Don/All, Don wrote: > But to the extent that 'another world is possible,' such > exceptions must always be seen to exist. > > Isn't possibility itself non-consensual silence? Isn't > fecundity? Nature? The cosmos? or anywhere a difference > waits to be made manifest, clarified, and so > constrained? I just started reading a new book, "A Shortcut Through Time", by George Johnson, a book about quantum computing. If quantum computing is realized, problems such as protein-folding, that defy solution with the largest and fastest silicon computers, will be more amenable to solution because of the extreme speed of quantum computing - hence a "shortcut". Studies of factoring numbers, say as large as 1,000,000, are reviving discussion of "parallel worlds" which were given serious consideration by quantum physicists decades ago. When factored with the quantum computer, each factorial division would be performed in a separate "parallel" universe. The second paragraph quoted above is interesting from other points of view: I think of "consensual silence" as an act of a "knowing" involving human intelligence, whereas the universe studied by physicists seems to contain intelligence only on Earth Even if "intelligence" should be defined as the interactions of particles, fields and forces that make a non-human world whatever it is, how could that world be conceived to '"wait", to "be constrained", to "be silent" regards, Hugh
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