David Mirly wrote: > It seems obvious to me that you could get very different results from > one computational architecture vs. another. > Swarm, for example, has a logical model of concurrency and options for controlling it. Suppose two agents schedule two events in the future that happen to be at the same time to the time resolution of the model. When these events are run, they can either be iterated in serial or in randomized order. Randomized order simulates the non-determinism one would expect from a truly asynchronous (parallel) realization of the model. You can indeed get artifacts / apparent causation in models depending on the details of event ordering...
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