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Yes, but those are explicitly invokable random functions, and not random fluctuations built into the entire functionality of the CPU.
by hliyan 8y ago
Yes, but those are explicitly invokable random functions, and not random fluctuations built into the entire functionality of the CPU.
- ben_w 8y agoYou can do that by overclocking everything and turning off error correction codes. This doesn’t seem like a powerful argument in favour of randomness or non-determination.
- naasking 8y ago> Yes, but those are explicitly invokable random functions, and not random fluctuations built into the entire functionality of the CPU. There's no logical difference. If the CPU's have any correlation to its inputs, then it's equivalent to a deterministic function+random input.
- bhouston 8y agoThe brain is random all over because it depends on liquid chemical reactions and diffusion and concentrates, etc. And those do not have fixed time courses, just probability distributions of reaction times. The brain is also ultra parallel with massive noise in all of its signals. You do not need quantumness in the brain to introduce randomness, it is filled to the brim with randomness already.
- wetpaws 8y agoThe devil in detail here is that you are probably want to use term "stochastic" rather than "random". While hardware model of the brain can fluctuate slightly, from a higher level all processes are pretty deterministic.
- Retra 8y agoEvery transistor in every computer on this planet relies on the aggregation of nondeterministic processes to function. Computers are quantum mechanical devices just as much as the brain is.