Originally posted by falconeye Originally posted by falconeye Quote
And there also is a lower limit for energy required per computation per second.
The initial quote was for limit on space-time volume per computation.
Sorry if I ignited a very OT debate, which is fun, but not my intention. Falc, I agree with most of what you said, both OT and on topic =), what tickled my nerve was that you originally said
"And there fortunately is no law of physics which sets a lower limit for the space-time volume
or energy required to do a computation"..the energy part (not the space-time part), but even then I guess you can be said to be correct since it's really computation per time, or actually erasing the calculated data that requires energy, but then again, infinite memory is unrealistic so I thought the "or energy" part of the statement might be misleading...but now we are beyond nitpicking I guess, so I yield =), I made assumptions (I thought was realistic) on requirements in addition to your statement and objected on those premises.
As for the pseudo science parts, I guess there is a strict definition but with the risk of people not aware of the differences believing it's similar to astrology or such, but yeah, I have no strong feeling about it, find it interesting that's all.