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Let's own up to at least one basic fact: at least some portion of what we do is algorithmic -- computational -- in nature. Why? As we have this discussion, we'r
by davepeck 15y ago
Let's own up to at least one basic fact: at least some portion of what we do is algorithmic -- computational -- in nature. Why? As we have this discussion, we're absorbing 1s and 0s. And we're spitting them back out in response on the other side... (what happens in the middle is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
- brudgers 15y agoalgorithmic != computational The recipe for boiled eggs is an example of a non-computational algorithm.
- davepeck 15y agoI'm not quite sure what point you're making, but I should clarify mine. I wasn't trying to say anything deep. I was just making a _very_ surface observation that, at some level, our brains consume, transform, and produce bits. It's almost tautological. I abused "algorithmic" but not in the way you suggest: there are some well-defined transformations of bits that no algorithm [in the technical sense] can perform. I'll go a step further and suggest that our brains can't perform those transformations, either.