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> With the above assumptions, this paper would conclude that only one operation in a transistor is "computing" anything Why? A transistor is just an arbitrary
by titzer 4y ago
> With the above assumptions, this paper would conclude that only one operation in a transistor is "computing" anything
Why? A transistor is just an arbitrary boundary. You could as well draw a box around any combinatorial circuit and just call it a "computational element". It has inputs and outputs and a switching energy for each unit of computation it does.
This is just the process of breaking computation up into abstractions--"boxes".
Clearly we must do this, otherwise we'd have to reason about individual electrons.
- svnt 4y agoElectrons themselves being just easily-measured boundaries around littler bits we’d be forced to acknowledge that our entire modeled reality is constructed.
- xpe 4y agoThe abstractions are constructed, yes. Probability suggests the same reality is there across a wide variety of experience -- or at least the experience that has been experimented on and discussed by the scientific community.