Sorry, John. It was a weak attempt to be humorous. Also, I mistyped. I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a book recommendation.
Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > John writes: > > > > “Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do > which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?” > > > > A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random > numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program itself > (not its memory). One could make a specialized computer using a FPGA that > even had an instruction to do that random dispatching. To counter the > arguments of Penrose, one could do the same using quantum states. > > > > https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941 > > > > There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical > supercomputers, of course. > > > > Marcus > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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