On 22 avr. 2013, at 19:14, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> A quote from someone on Facebook. Any comments? > > "Computers can only do computations for rational numbers, not for real > numbers. Every number in a computer is represented as rational. No computer > can represent pi or any other real number... So even when consciousness can > be explained by computations, no computer can actually simulate it." Of course it can, the same way it represents the letter A, as some sequence of bits. And it can perform symbolic computations with it. It can calculate pi/2 + pi/2 = pi and so on. > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
