On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 6:55:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 6:40 PM <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> I don't have answers to any of these questions, but I do know this: >> >> *The Church-Turing thesis is one of the most useless ideas ever invented.* >> >> >> > Is it? It's the reason you can install new apps on your smartphone without > having to buy a new chip or piece of hardware everytime you do. It's why we > can have virtual machines (I am writing this e-mail from a virtual machine) > and emulators. It's why we have the profession of software engineers who > need not care about the hardware in question. > > > >> >> Is the church-Turing thesis true? >> > > Almost certainly. > > Jason > > >> Carol E. Cleland >> https://philpapers.org/rec/CLEITC >> >
When I follow a recipe (a program) to make a meal, I mix the identified ingredients in the specified order and cook according to the specified times. The meal is tasty (hopefully). Entering the recipe into a computer (even if there was some sort of recipe interpreter) does not result in a tasty meal. @philipthrift -- 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.
