I think a lot of people are mistaking a “cell” in this universe for being comparable to… I guess a “cell” in biology, or something, and comparing each step in the program to… I don’t know what people are thinking exactly here (a second?). But I think for comparison to our physics (and any kind of biology or intelligence that we would care about), each cell is a quark, and each tick is equivalent to a Planck time. This doesn’t make the sentient creatures we’re hypothesizing big and slow, it just means they’re the same size and speed that we are.
No, I was mostly agreeing with you, except to reframe the comparison as “an intelligenct creature would be the same size that they are in our universe. As far as we’re concerned, we’re normal sized, and quarks are small.”
I also address the “it’s so SLOW!” comment I saw a few other places. There was no single comment that made the most sense to reply to, and I figured I might as well tie the comments together since I saw them as related.
and some other post:
I think a lot of people are mistaking a “cell” in this universe for being comparable to… I guess a “cell” in biology, or something, and comparing each step in the program to… I don’t know what people are thinking exactly here (a second?). But I think for comparison to our physics (and any kind of biology or intelligence that we would care about), each cell is a quark, and each tick is equivalent to a Planck time. This doesn’t make the sentient creatures we’re hypothesizing big and slow, it just means they’re the same size and speed that we are.
Does my post give you the impression that I was mistaking a cell for being something like a cell in our universe?
No, I was mostly agreeing with you, except to reframe the comparison as “an intelligenct creature would be the same size that they are in our universe. As far as we’re concerned, we’re normal sized, and quarks are small.”
I also address the “it’s so SLOW!” comment I saw a few other places. There was no single comment that made the most sense to reply to, and I figured I might as well tie the comments together since I saw them as related.