[MD] Levels in electronic computers

Ian Glendinning ian.glendinning at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 23:30:09 PDT 2010


And Magnus, choice and fuzziness in computers ?

Leaving the "free will" debate out of choice for now .... computers
are full of fuzziness, there are particular organically (human)
created arrangements of the fuzzy (noisy electrons, buzzing silicon
and germanium lattices, rising and falling potentials) processes that
flip and flop as switches to choose digitally at one level we've
arranged.

Having introduced this digital order, we do of course re-introduced
unpredictability and randomizers to re-interrupt the neat digital
clock cycles with the noise again.

Depends where you look Magnus .... and at what "scale". The
predictability and repeatability has a scale dependent element.
Ian



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