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Your comment made me realize a chemical reaction is an analog computer computing every parameter of the chemical reaction at once.
by danuker 4y ago
Your comment made me realize a chemical reaction is an analog computer computing every parameter of the chemical reaction at once.
- gilded-lilly 4y agoYour comment made me realize the universe is a quantum computer calculating the position of every sub atomic particle in real time.
- mjan22640 4y agoIt might only appear real time from within the simulation.
- uoaei 4y agoThat is precisely my point...
- danuker 4y agoIndeed. Your comment prepared me for the experience, but the ball did not drop in my case until taeric's comment (which incidentally missed your point). To taeric: Anything IS an analog computer of itself. Doing it for real completely bypasses the need to simulate.
- feet 4y agoThis is the explanation of why the brain is an analog biochemical computer
- taeric 4y agoBy this, though, you have to then consider mere half life decay as a calculator. Such that the definition becomes pointless.
- uoaei 4y ago> Such that the definition becomes pointless. This is a subjective, normative claim. As such it doesn't hold much water.
- taeric 4y agoHow is this, then. If I can model everything as a calculation, such that all things are computers. What isn't a computer?
- uoaei 4y agoExactly my point :)
- taeric 4y agoAnd my point is if your definition for a thing is so expansive that everything can fit, it seems a poor definition.
- uoaei 4y agoI think "description" is more apt than "definition", however still both are different from "distinction". What I mean is, a distinction (by definition) draws a boundary between "that" and "not-that", but descriptions don't need to do that, they are merely conceptual framings that can be applied to whatever is relevant.
- danuker 4y agoFor instance, an exponential decay is a bad model of a stepwise function. So, while everything is a computer, not everything computes what you want it to. For purposes of human life, only a device easy to control is a computer.