Apples are not computers. Apples are Apples. Computers are Computers.
Applemacs? Well if Newton had had one of these drop on his head then the
whole confusion about whether or not falling objects fall because they
perform calculations might have had some explanation. As it is, the idea
that "The falling apple is an analogue computer" I find utterly
inexplicable.
Apples are not computers.
Elephant.
> From: "Jonathan B. Marder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:51:05 +0200
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: MD Glenn, Platt, Ant and the creation of patterns
>
> Dear elephant, Platt, Glenn, Roger and all,
>
> ELEPHANT
>> Er, Gravity *is* an idea. And that's the whole point. What newton added to
>> the transparent fact that apples fall was an idea expressed in mathematics:
>> viz, gravity.
>
> I fully agree. Gravity as a word, description of mathematical equation is an
> idea that somehow distills actual experience into communicable form. One might
> argue that the birth of an idea corresponds to the date it is first
> communicated (before this it is in gestation).
>
>
>> That this idea expressed in mathematics should *correspond
>> to* real life is wonderful. But that it *is* real life is ficxticous:
>> apples do not perform mathematical calculations.
>>
> But they do. The falling apple is an analogue computer that operates according
> to very precise rules.
> To use it, one has to be able to interpret the trajectories (basically what
> Sir Isaac did).
> Elephant, I know I'm being pedantic, but do you think digital computers
> perform mathematical calculations?
>
> Jonathan
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