Waouw,  the great John Clark got it all...  he knows everything in nature
is computable,  that computationalism is true... and the best,  he doesn't
need to prove it or provide an argument... it is so self evident. I wonder
why he didn't get the Nobel prize.
Le 8 oct. 2014 23:16, "John Clark" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014  Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > the question is not if human can use nature's solution of an NP-hard (or
>> even a non computable analog function),
>>
>
> If nature can do it then there is no reason humans can't harness nature to
> do it for us, but there is ZERO evidence that nature can solve  NP complete
> problems (much less non computable problems!) in polynomial time.
>
>
>> > but if nature does
>>
>
>  The question isn't if human beings can devise problems that are
> NP-complete, we already know that they can, the question is: Does nature
> ever solve NP-hard problems in polynomial time? There is not one scarp of
> evidence that it does.
>
> > If our consciousness relies on this [...]
>>
>
> Then it's very odd that we can't find one bit of evidence that it's true
> and even odder that we're even worse at solving NP-complete problems than
> computers are.
>
>
>> > The point, I thought, was theoretical at the start.
>>
>
> You theory predicted that soap films could solve NP-complete problems.
> Experiment showed that it can not. Therefore the your theory is wrong. A
> good experiment ALWAYS outranks theory, any theory.
>
>  John K Clark
>
>
> --
> 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.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

-- 
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.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to