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Time travel and teleportation are the hardest sci-fi dreams to achieve, in my opinion. We need tesseract level API access before we can hope to use either of t

• cousin_it 16y ago
  If we upload our minds into computers, we will be able to code up and inhabit a simulated universe where time travel and teleportation are possible. I wonder if we will want that, though.
  • crazydiamond 16y ago
    Another way to go would be to link our brains to some computer that can simulate experience. Tired of what the physical world has to offer, people of the future may prefer to live in such virtual worlds, ... as long as the experience seems real, who cares.
  • crazydiamond 16y ago
    Here's a quote from today to supplement top post: Randy D. Allen, a biologist at Oklahoma State University, argued that a smart-enough species could develop a quantum computer and eventually transfer their consciousnesses into it. "No more inefficient metabolism requiring huge energy input, no chemically derived bodies to wear out, no reproduction, no death, no taxes. Just supermassively parallel collective consciousness with unlimited capabilities," he wrote. "Perhaps, through super symmetry or entanglement, they can "see" or "feel" the entire universe. Maybe, they've gained the ability to manipulate elementary particles and can control its evolution and its fate. They would have become, by any human definition, Gods."
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• rms 16y ago
  And with tesseract level API access you could do so much more than time travel, like begin a large computation of all possible computable universes. I think we'll probably get time travel and teleportation before we get the superpower of the hypercube.