On Nov 22, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > So why should it make a difference > whether those state changes are decided by gates in the cpu or a > huge look-up table?
The difference is in the number of times that the relevant computation was physically implemented. When you query the lookup table to get a bit, you are not performing the computation again. You're just viewing the result of the computation you did earlier. It seems to me that this matters for Duplicationists, but maybe not for Unificationists. Or maybe I'm still misdiagnosing the problem. Is anyone arguing that, when you play back the lookup table like a movie, this counts as performing all of the Conway's Life computations a second time? In that case there would be nothing problematic about this thought experiment for Duplicationists or Unificationists. But I don't see how playing back the lookup table can count as implementing the Conway's Life computations. -- Kory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
