On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:14 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. >> > > Have you just disproved that simulation hypothesis? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5y68ErffgM Jason -- 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.
