From: David Ocame (docame_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 19:24:31 PDT
Now that's a very interesting project, indeed!
I wonder, I glanced through the original article linked from Ray Kurzweil's website, although I didn't read it in exacting detail as I will do. But, I didn't see any mention of programming intelligence in to the 'mix'.
I'm half-way through the book Biocosm by James N. Gardner. What's interesting is that Kurweil is quoted in this book as saying, "It is likely that not the only place where intelligence has been seeded and is growing. Ultimately, intelligence will be a force to reckon with, even for these big celestial forces."
Turn the page and Freeman Dyson is quoted by Gardner in, "It is impossible to calculate in detail the long range future of the universe without including the effects of life and intelligence".
I just find it fascinating that I've just read this and then come home to this email from Larry about the Virgo Consortium. Sort of like considering a particular car you've never seen on the road before and then you start seeing it all the time!
BTW, yes, I am in the midst of writing a review of Biocosm. This helps me get my thoughts together about it.
Cheers!
Dave Ocame
LARRY KLAES <ljk4_at_msn.com> wrote:
Computing the Cosmos
IEEE Spectrum Sept. 7, 2004
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Scientists in the "Virgo
Consortium" are working on an
ambitious project whose goal is to
simulate on a supercomputer the
evolution of the entire universe,
from just after the Big Bang until
the present -- the largest and most
detailed computer model of the
universe ever...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=3693&m=7610
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