Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-16 Thread John Collier
Dear folks, I think there is a bit of confusion here due to an ambiguity in the idea of computation. A function is computable for a given input only if it has an equivalent Turing machine that halts. A function is a computation if it is representable by a Turing machine. (I assume the

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-15 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
[mailto:u...@umces.edu] Sent: den 15 maj 2012 15:36 To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Cc: Bruno Marchal; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday Quoting Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic gordana.dodig-crnko...@mdh.se: 2. Whatever changes in the states

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-15 Thread Bob Logan
, Gordana -Original Message- From: Robert Ulanowicz [mailto:u...@umces.edu] Sent: den 15 maj 2012 15:36 To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Cc: Bruno Marchal; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday Quoting Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-12 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
:03 To: Hector Zenil Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Information Science Subject: Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday On 12 May 2012, at 00:55, Hector Zenil wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.bemailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 May

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 May 2012, at 13:10, Hector Zenil wrote: Information that readers may find interesting: Stephen Wolfram has written the first in a series of blogs posts about NKS titled It's Been 10 Years; What's Happened with A New Kind of Science?:

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-11 Thread Hector Zenil
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 May 2012, at 13:10, Hector Zenil wrote: Information that readers may find interesting: Stephen Wolfram has written the first in a series of blogs posts about NKS titled It's Been 10 Years; What's Happened with A

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

2012-05-11 Thread Plamen
Not long time ago, people like John von Neumann were doing both, math and physics, and even computation. Earlier, such people were also doing philosophy and music, and medicine, etc. Ask yourself why? It is only a phenomenon of modern times with the increasing fragmentation of science that the