On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 4:14 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:25 AM <cloudver...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 6:55:37 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 6:40 PM <cloud...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
