Re: Turing Machines Have no Real Time Clock (Was The Game of Life)

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:22:29 -0700 (PDT)

--- GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> > > > Turing Machines have no real time clock ...
> > > > If we assume the comp hypothesis
> > > > (purely based on Turing machines) and the
> > > > anthropic principle, then the flow of
> > > > consciousness can only be
> > > > constrained by the logical nature of the
links
> > > > pernitting transitions from one observer
> > > > moment to the next. Time therefore is an
> > > > illusion derived from such a logical flow.

> Please!!! Of course Turing Machines have clocks!!!!
> [...] But they don't have REAL TIME
> CLOCKS, Jacques!!!! You know the kind that tells
> computers the time of day and the date...

    OK, so you admit time is real but unknown. I
guess your "illusion" claim was due to schitzophrenia
on your part.

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Received on Mon May 22 2000 - 09:24:32 PDT

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