> On 30 Sep 2018, at 07:30, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:28:34 PM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 3:53:04 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > On 9/29/2018 1:45 PM, [email protected] <> 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 > > > Bacterial computing: a form of natural computing and its applications > - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971165/ > <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971165/> > > Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators > - https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer > <https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteria-computer> > > Bacteria Can Now Be Programmed Like a Computer > - > https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/43d9en/bacteria-can-now-be-programmed-like-a-computer > > <https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/43d9en/bacteria-can-now-be-programmed-like-a-computer> > > > - ptIs > > What is a computer -- what is it -- that bacteria can be seen as being like? > Why bother to define it. Nothing obvious here except sloppy use of analogies. > AG
If phi_i is an enumeration of the partial computable function, the one closed to diagonalisation as I explained in the thread “why Church thesis is a miracle”. Reread that post, I wrote it for you. Bruno > > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
