Hyper-Communication 293 space, or giving birth. To digitize life completely, we need to stimulate every relevant nerve ending in the human body in real-time — skin, ears, eyes, balance, pain centers, and so on. At the low end, a ‘perfect? IMAX production would require 360 degree stereoscopic projection and the generation of a full sound field. This would take 3 Gigabits per second for the audio field and 5,600 terabits per second for the video field. This could be substantially reduced if the person wears virtual reality glasses to track their head and eye move- ments, but then you are substituting resolution with computer power. At the high end, a team at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab estimate reality needs one hundred trillion samples per inch for a ‘simple quantum representation. If we look at the many worlds view of quantum mechanics, each photon hitting our eye can't be fully described by a single number. The photon may be entangled with other realities we should keep track of. This causes our picture of reality to become wildly complex. Everything we might see and experience is in some way a combination of possibilities, and these possibilities all interact. Real life is very complex. Symbolic Communication Computers have no concept of an in-person meeting. They communicate using purely symbolic methods in binary numbers. These have the same meaning whether communicated over a short piece of wire or using a fiber optic cable half way around the world. Computers never have to communicate understanding to each other because they use programs and a program can be perfectly transmitted. Body language is, of course, completely alien to them! We know there are non-computable things; functions, numbers, musical melodies, and mathematical puzzles. Why would there not also be a place for non-computation in communication? David Deutsch has suggested human creativity is used to guess the ‘program’ running in someone’s mind, and evolved so we can learn skill