RE: Where is the information stored?
January 19, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2015 at 10:18 pm by watchamadoodle.)
When I was a sophomore physics student, I was lucky enough to attend a surprise lecture by Richard Feynman. At one point in the lecture, I thought I understood something profound, and Feynman made eye contact and smiled kind of knowingly. But it was like a slippery fish that got away. 
Basically Feynman was showing how computation and physics are connected through thermodynamics. He was showing how the efficiency of computer chips was limited by the coding of the computation regardless of the realization of that computer physically. I believe reversible transformations were preferable.
It seems like the idea was related to the "mind-body" problem possibly. Maybe somebody here will have a thought? I feel like it was important, and maybe it was the point of the lecture. (It's almost like I owe it to Feynman to understand what he was trying to tell me... silly I guess.)
Basically Feynman was showing how computation and physics are connected through thermodynamics. He was showing how the efficiency of computer chips was limited by the coding of the computation regardless of the realization of that computer physically. I believe reversible transformations were preferable.
It seems like the idea was related to the "mind-body" problem possibly. Maybe somebody here will have a thought? I feel like it was important, and maybe it was the point of the lecture. (It's almost like I owe it to Feynman to understand what he was trying to tell me... silly I guess.)
