On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:25 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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]> 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. >
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