2023-09-20 09:03 UTC
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org
... as evidenced clearly by your article. Physical systems that are not vonNeumann computers (eg neuromorphic chips) can do a whole lot (in fact, infinitely) more than just calculate the set of Turing-computable functions (bcs they can have real-valued parameters). Just because you *can* perform Turing-computations with them, or model them with a computational model, does not mean such systems *are* literally computers.
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@yoginho@spore.social 2023-09-20 09:19
@tyrell_turing@fediscience.org Your are right in pointing out that there are various physical implementations of systems that you can use to perform (more or less universal) effective computation. Your brain is one of them. But you're totally wrong in your thinking that this is all that physical systems (incl. your brain) can do. The world is much richer than you think. But you can't see this, because you literally live inside your computational (small-world) model or the large world you actually live in.