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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.