On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > you have no knowledge of computer science and its history. Computation > and computability have been discovered by mathematicians and they don't use > any physical assumptions. > That is true, physical assumptions or assumptions of any sort are not needed to make a calculation, but matter that obeys the laws of physics is. > > INTEL is interested in physical computation, > INTEL is interested in computations period, if you know of a way to make calculations that isn't physical INTEL would very much want to hear from you! >> >> The only reason John Clark talks about " >> >> physical computation >> " >> and not just "computation" is that unlike John Clark >> Bruno Marchal >> thinks there is a type of computation that isn't physical. >> > > > > It is not me. It is everybody in the field. Just open any book on that > subject. > It doesn't matter if it's open or closed, no book on that subject can make a calculation. > > > Avoid books written by physicalist metaphysician of course > And books by " physicalist metaphysician s" (whatever the hell that is) can't make a calculation either, but a silicon microprocessor can, and that is why INTEL makes microprocessors and not books. 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.
