WildcatMon, Dec 24, 2007 The difference will eventually be (actually has always been) a difference of speed, the ability to compute faster what everybody else can compute anyway.
yes, this particular statement raises a number of questions, chief amongst which is the following:
isn't it the case that an increase in speed (quantity) eventually allows a difference in quality? (quality I take here to mean understanding or pattern recognition)
again I am not certain i understand Wolfram's paradigm accurately, however, by analogy, isn't an increase in speed tantamount to an increase in the amount of information processed per a given amount of process of/in time?
if (and thats a great if here) we can increase the speed of computation by a factor equal or greater than the speed of production of information in the universe, doesn't that imply that we can theoretically "understand the universe? and us in the process?
yes, this particular statement raises a number of questions, chief amongst which is the following:
isn't it the case that an increase in speed (quantity) eventually allows a difference in quality? (quality I take here to mean understanding or pattern recognition)
again I am not certain i understand Wolfram's paradigm accurately, however, by analogy, isn't an increase in speed tantamount to an increase in the amount of information processed per a given amount of process of/in time?
if (and thats a great if here) we can increase the speed of computation by a factor equal or greater than the speed of production of information in the universe, doesn't that imply that we can theoretically "understand the universe? and us in the process?