> On 28 Jun 2018, at 20:24, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected] 
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> >​>​ nobody around here has provided even a hint of how pure numbers could do 
> >the same thing.
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> T​>​hat is done in all (good) textbook in mathematical logic or computability 
> theory.
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> ​Ah yes, that wonderful textbook you keep talking about, the magical book 
> that can perform calculations that Intel has somehow never heard of.


No. The wonderful textbook which explains that computation is not a physical 
notion. Nowhere anybody has ever defended the idea that books or texts can 
think. You are the only one mentioning that, and this looks like being 
extremely confused on the subject. Yes, you should buy some of those book and 
study them. 

Bruno




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