"Peter Verswyvelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > The only thing that computers can do that humans can't is to work > >> > without getting bored. > > It's always interesting to compare computers and humans, especially > computer scientist seem to do that :) > Hm. More importantly, only humans try to write a general Eq and Ord instances over different domains.
> But since it seems that plants use some kind of quantum coherence > just to do photosynthesis (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Quantum_mechanical_effects), > I would not be surprised that our human brain also uses some clever > (quantum?) tricks to achieve what it does, tricks which might not be > simulated by a regular computer, no matter how fast it runs. But > didn't Gödel "proved" that already somehow with its incompleteness > theory? Nah I'm just mixing up things here ;) > That's more closely related to information hiding, emergent complexity and stuff. http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html which doesn't really explain anything, just that most explanations are dead wrong. > Okay, enough of that, I'm getting seriously off topic here, and I > don't know at all what quantum coherence is, it just sounds cool ;-) > You have my vote for the creation of comp.lang.philosophy. Or comp.lang.esoteric.teabagswinging, if you prefer. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe