<div dir="auto">Well, I'm not a sequential machine although my wife has her doubts.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the algebraic geometry suggestions. Jon Zingale and I will try to master the subject. Others may join us on Saturday mornings if they wish.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://wacsequentisl">https://wacsequentisl</a> <a href="http://mww.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">mww.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 5:16 PM John Kennison <<a href="mailto:JKennison@clarku.edu">JKennison@clarku.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I didn't realize it was supposed to be a joke --it seemed like a relevant example. I'm not an algebraic geometer but:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> . . . there is a historical survey in <a href="https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf" class="m_5294235728819181917OWAAutoLink" id="m_5294235728819181917LPlnk514768" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><a href="https://www.ime.usp.br/~pleite/pub/artigos/abhyankar/abhyankar.pdf" class="m_5294235728819181917OWAAutoLink" id="m_5294235728819181917LPlnk599069" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a>If you read that you can tell if you like Ahbyankar's style. He wrote a more
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<div dir="auto">Sorry, John. It was a weak attempt to be humorous.
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<div dir="auto">Also, I mistyped. I meant "algebraic geometry" when I was asking for a book recommendation.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Frank<br>
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Frank Wimberly<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 12:56 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">John writes:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">“<span style="color:black">Is there something that animals, or more particularly humans, can do which we can prove cannot be duplicated by a sequential machine?</span>”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402078941</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>There are all kinds of physical processes that are simulated on classical supercomputers, of course.<u></u><u></u></p>
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