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Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or [[spacetime]] event, provided enough [[Mathematics|mathematical]] information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by | Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or [[spacetime]] event, provided enough [[Mathematics|mathematical]] information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by {{Ainley}} in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') [[Artificial intelligence]]s could be made as well. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of twelve people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)|The Boy That Time Forgot]]'') | ||
[[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations, as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer. Though they were working on technological means to do so, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. As such, organic life forms had to do the work as morphologically unstable living organic matter could handle the stress of reality-changes caused by block transfer mathematics. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud for this reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') but there were few others. The correct organic material could be found with [[Gallifrey]], [[Axos]], and possibly even [[Nestene]] matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') | [[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations, as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer. Though they were working on technological means to do so, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. As such, organic life forms had to do the work as morphologically unstable living organic matter could handle the stress of reality-changes caused by block transfer mathematics. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud for this reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') but there were few others. The correct organic material could be found with [[Gallifrey]], [[Axos]], and possibly even [[Nestene]] matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') | ||
