On 28 December 2013 17:41, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Stephen Paul King < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi LizR and Jason, >> >> Responding to both of you. I don't understand the claim of determinism >> is "random noise" is necessary for the computations. Turing machines >> require exact pre-specifiability. Adding noise oracles is cheating! >> >> > I think you misunderstand. Computers are deterministic, but they often > need randomness to implement things such as cryptography or monte-carlo > simulations, etc. Due to this need for true unpredictability, our > computers must harness environmental noise if they are to have any hope of > being unpredictable. This is because computers cannot generate > unpredictability on their own. > > They are engineered not to! This is why digital recordings don't degrade, etc.
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