User blog comment:Wythagoras/My Turing machines/@comment-6768393-20131012123348/@comment-6768393-20131014222945

I have a book D. Deutsch's in Russian, so I am afraid that I can not translate exactly what he meant in English. so I took an excerpt from Wikipedia (the inventor of the "omega point" Frank J. Tipler)"The Omega Point is a term Tipler uses to describe a cosmological state in the distant proper-time future of the universe that he maintains is required by the known physical laws. According to this cosmology, it is required for the known laws of physics to be mutually consistent that intelligent life take over all matter in the universe and eventually force its collapse. During that collapse, the computational capacity of the universe diverges to infinity and environments emulated with that computational capacity last for an infinite duration as the universe attains a solitary-point cosmological singularity. This singularity is Tipler's Omega Point.[6] With computational resources diverging to infinity..."

Of course, it sounds fantastic in our time, but a lot of things that exist now, a thousand years ago, too, looked fantastic!