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> Jupiter brains must be hollow spheres. So... it's the same shape as the biosphere. This seems to support my current working hypothesis: "sufficiently advanc
by schiffern 10y ago
> Jupiter brains must be hollow spheres.
So... it's the same shape as the biosphere.
This seems to support my current working hypothesis: "sufficiently advanced civilizations are indistinguishable from nature."
I just came across some surprising electron micrograph videos. They show "clumps" of hundreds of cell nuclei streaming through fungal hyphae networks one cell thick, and even some "swimming" against the current.[1] The nucleus isn't just a dumb hard drive holding DNA, but does information processing, sensing, and response as well. There's about 8 miles of fungal hyphae in a cubic inch of forest soil. So overall this represents an astounding potential for computing and sensing/effecting.
I wonder if any bioinformaticists have estimated the theoretical power of such a computing architecture?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za-vIdak3bI&t=25m15s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za-vIdak3bI&t=25m15s
- hwillis 10y ago>This seems to support my current working hypothesis: "sufficiently advanced civilizations are indistinguishable from nature." How about "large scale optimization processes over long periods of time tend to converge onto functional solutions that meet basic dimensionality requirements."
- M_Grey 10y agoI read these comments, and I just think how much good it would do someone like Dan Brown to spend an hour with people like you. sigh More broadly your collective point applies to larger megastructures like Matrioshka Brains (concentric Dyson Spheres). At some point maybe the convergence starts to look like an equation of state for some form of degenerate matter, arranged in very very thin concentric spheres.