Re: My history or Peters??

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:58:09 -0700

Hello Marchal

On 05-Sep-01, Marchal wrote:

> Even if we are "more than" a universal computing machine, it is easy
> to explain there is a sense in which we are *at least* universal
> computing machines (even the kind which can know that(°)), and that is
> enough for making the world possibly very complex.

We are certainly *less* than universal turing machines - since a
universal turing machine requires infinite storage to work with.

Brent Meeker
 There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged
and
accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of
the
result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.

      --- Alfred North Whitehead
Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 19:59:08 PDT