On 19 Sep 2013, at 19:31, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
wrote:
>> A computation is a process.
> I can agree with this, unless you meant a "physical process", OK.
As Rolf Landauer said "Computation is physical",
Yes, Landauer is a major proponents of that idea. If that is true,
then computationalism is false.
all computations must use energy and generate heat. And what's the
difference between a physical process and a non-physical process
anyway?
With comp, a physical process is the result of the first person
(plural) indeterminacy beaing on all computations. It involves Qubit,
and can exploit Fourier transform on infinities of result in alternate
computations. A non physical process would be defined by number
relations involving only finite and local informations.
Bruno
John K Clark
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