On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 02:15:31PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > I know you like Robert Rosen, who asserted that Church Turing thesis > is false, but he has not convinced me at all on this. >
Where did he assert this? Admittedly, I haven't read all his works, mainly just "What is life?", but I thought his main thesis was that living systems could be distinguished from computation by virtue of it being closed under efficient causation (which computations aren't). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.

