>>14111016What does that mean? What is an "energy only field?"
Cyberspace is a name for a software world, which runs on a physical substrate which we call a computer. Computers are built out of atoms. And within the space of all combinations of atoms, there are no combinations that surpass biological lifeforms composed of carbon-hydrogen bonds. There is no computer you can build that can surpass the power of these combinations of atoms, because they are the global maximum in form and function for this behavior.
The most powerful computers right now perform about as many computations as a cockroach, while being hundreds of thousands of times more massive and requiring millions of times more energy, and ultimately not being as intelligence or as capable of movement. This isn't because of our inability to engineer stuff, or because of some notion of these computers being unrefined versions of their future selves. It's simply because the atoms that these machines are built out of are an inferior material to construct robots out of. Only carbon-hydrogen bonds forming what we call lifeforms and biological organisms can perform the massive levels of complexity required to be a robot of any actual sophistication.
What Moore's law is actually describing is the ability for engineers to stick more atoms together, in order to control the flow of cause and effect, in order to write more algorithms in the same amount of space. But all of it has to do with forming atoms into structures to perform functions. As you go forward in this, you will converge to biological and organic compounds, built of carbon-hydrogen bonds, that form into what we call lifeforms, as the most information dense set of matter you can put together that can still be formed into self perpetuating machines. This is it. This is the highest level of organization. There is nothing that goes beyond this, it's simply the emergent property of how carbon forms bonds.
