On 19 Nov 2008, at 20:37, Michael Rosefield wrote:
> Are not logic gates black boxes, though? Does it really matter what > happens between Input and Output? In which case, it has absolutely > no bearing on Alice's consciousness whether the gate's a neuron, an > electronic doodah, a team of well-trained monkeys or a lucky quantum > event or synchronicity. Good summary. > It does not matter, really, where or when the actions of the gate > take place. As far as they represent, physically or materially, the relevant computation, assuming MEC+MAT. OK. MGA 2 will give one more step forward the idea that the materiality cannot play a relevant part in the computation. I will try to do MGA 2 tomorrow. (It is 21h22m23s here, I mean 9h22m31s pm :). I have to solve a conflict between two ways to make the MGA 2. If I don't succeed, I will make both. Thanks for trying to understand, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
