Physical limits on intelligence?

submitted by trident765 from self.TechDystopia

Can intelligence (of machines) grow without bound, or are there physical limits on intelligence? Is there a point where it is physically impossible to get any smarter? I'm thinking of limitations resulting from things like the speed of light.

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[–]newguy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This question is basically the plot for this super famous and very thought-provoking sci-fi short story... Isaac Asimov - The Last Question. Here is the full text (only 9 pages):

https://physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

This is one of those things I read a long time ago and it's stuck in my head because it is so profound. It really captures the battle of entropy vs negentropy (disorder vs order) at the end of the universe, and asks in a deep way if intelligence can ever truly understand itself or the universe that contains it.

[–]ScottZanders 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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