[FRIAM] Open Letter, draft #2

[Frank Wimberly]

Sorry, John.  It was a weak attempt to be humorous.

Also, I mistyped.  I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a
book recommendation.

Frank

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> John writes:
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> “Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do
> which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?”
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> 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.
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> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941
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> There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical
> supercomputers, of course.
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> Marcus
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