[FRIAM] Open Letter, draft #2

[Marcus Daniels]

John writes:



“Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?”



A sequential computer program could simply be a loop that sampled random numbers and indexed into the address space of the computer program itself (not its memory).   One could make a specialized computer using a FPGA that even had an instruction to do that random dispatching.   To counter the arguments of Penrose, one could do the same using quantum states.



https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941



There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical supercomputers, of course.



Marcus
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