worfly

I think this question is central to his disagreement with Kurzweil, "Are we seriously to suppose that dreams and thoughts have geometrical shape?"

Which to my ear, belies his fundamental apprehension of geometry.

when i first read that, i thought it said mirror at the end.

The CPU, RAM and non-volatile storage architecture do tell you a lot about what a program can and cannot do. Furthermore, if your Windows OS does something magical on the screen over the course of a minute, you can be confident that there is a definable limit to the amount and type of code that could have been executed in order to achieve that "magical" result.

A more accurate question might be, "can you recreate the running code of the Windows OS, given an installed desktop running Windows OS". Oh, and we also have some copies of the source code--if that helps (but it is hand-written in Mandarin). :)