Posted: Dec 16, 2010 12:49 pm
Of course I do.GenesForLife wrote:They also mention thisDembski is attempting to calculate a kind of uncertainty using something
like Shannon’s formula. To do this, he needs to take the logarithm
of the number of possibilities. But Lloyd’s 10120 bit-operations and 1090
bits are already the logarithms of the number of possible computational
sequences and the number of possible register states respectively. To
insert either of them inside the logarithm in his formula is a mistake;
what needs to go there is the thing (sequences or states) of which they
are the logarithm.
Do you have a link to Lloyd's original paper?
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141