ULTIMATE COMPUTING - Quantum Consciousness Studies

6 Prelude
0.1 Acknowledgements
This book is a collective effect of the following people: Ralph Abraham, Ross
Adey, Sigma Alpha, Fred Anderson, Amy Barnes, Joanne Barnes, Michel
Bornens, Burnell Brown, George Carlson, Forrest Carter, Peter Christiansen, Jim
Clegg, John Condeelis, Leonor Cruzeiro, Marc DeBrabander, Yves Engelborghs,
Lawrence Fried, Herbert Fröhlich, Kit Grantham, Jamie, Harrison, Lillian, Amy,
and the entire Hameroff/Kaplan/Bowman family, Max Headroom, Emery Hetrick,
Dixie Holmes, Paul Jablonka, Martha Juarez, Jan Julianus, Ben Kahn, Charles
Kiselyak, Djuro Koruga, Julio Kuperman, Teruo Matsumoto, Leo Martin,
Kathleen McAuliffe, Claris Nelson, Michio Okuma, Karl Pribram, Mary Quimby,
Steen Rasmussen, Conrad Schneiker, Alwyn Scott, Steven Smith, Branko Soucek,
Arthur Villa, Rich Watt, Juli Weiss and Arthur Winfree.
Most of the artwork was thoughtfully done by scientist/systems
engineer/artist Paul Jablonka. Conrad Schneiker supplied most of the material on
nanotechnology and replicators for Chapter 10, and compiled the appendices. I
am indebted to the Laboratory for Advanced Mathematics and Physics at the
Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Camping Union who hosted me,
Jamie and Harrison during our sabbatical. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of my
colleagues in the Department of Anesthesiology and the College of Medicine,
University of Arizona who permitted me time and mental latitude. Thanks to
Personal TeX’s port of Don Knuth’s TeX, plus Leslie Lamport’s LaTeX,
Textset’s DVILASER/PS, Boreland’s Turbo Lightning, Adobe Systems’
PostScript, Apple’s Macintosh and LaserWriter, IBM’s PC/AT and its clones,
QMS’s PS800 laser printer and Xerox’s machines and their clones. The ever
friendly and competent technical support from Textset, Personal TeX and HDS
Systems is also greatly appreciated. [2003 Note: For various reasons, the
electronic version of this book was formatted by the often wonderfully convenient
but also sometimes obnoxiously troublesome Microsoft Word 2002. While Word
2002 was a great time-saver overall compared to the previous tools, some pretty
basic things that previously worked fine out of the box would have required too
much additional work to reasonably replicate here. Hence the above-mentioned
people, products, and companies should not be held responsible for the ironically
sometimes less satisfactory typographical results some 16 years later.]
Finally, Jan Julianus and Elsevier North-Holland deserve credit for their
instigation and patience.
0.2 Dedication
To H. H., who loved to gamble.