On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:53:04 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8:07:12 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/29/2018 4:34 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> A bacteria is already a computer (at least), >>> >> >> >> *Really? Then you should be able to identify the entities that store >> binary information. And where is the clock which pulses and advances the >> instruction pointer? And where is the instruction pointer located? AG* >> >> >> Not all computers are von Neumann computers. >> >> Brent >> > > *Maybe he means a parallel processor, but whatever he means should be > spelled out explicitly. One can't just assert, as if it's obvious, that a > bacteria is already a computer. * > > > Of course it is obvious that a bacterium computes things...like swimming > toward nutrients and how to make another bacterium. > > Brent >
*So anything that shows intentional behavior you're going to call a computer? A comet which misses the Sun, or one that doesn't, can be imagined as having intentional behavior. AG * > > *One thing for sure; he doesn't know what the MUH is, and therefore cannot > understand my simple falsification of the hypothesis. AG * > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
