Quentin Anciaux wrote: > Hi, > > Le Dimanche 20 Août 2006 05:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : > > Peter Jones writes (quoting SP): > > > > What about an inputless computer program, running deterministically > > > > like a recording. Would that count as a program at all, > > > > > > It would be a trivial case. > > > > Trivial does not mean false. > > It seems to me that the set of inputless programs contains the set of programs > which have inputs. Because a program which have inputs could be written as > the following inputless program : > > |HARDCODED INPUT||CODE|
Which could be further simplified into |HARCODED OUTPUT| But not most people would call that "data", not "programme". (in any case, this kind of one-shot progamme is not a good model of mind. A mind is more like a fuzzy-logic real-time system). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
