Timeline for Is computation independent of hardware?
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 10:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCompSci/status/774199413308846080 | ||
| Sep 5, 2016 at 22:19 | answer | added | John Frederick Chionglo | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Sep 5, 2016 at 8:54 | answer | added | Lan... | timeline score: -3 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 8:14 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 8:05 | answer | added | Raphael | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 4:20 | comment | added | HEKTO | There is large and vibrant branch of philosophy, which tries to answer your questions (and more), which is called Philosophy of Mathematics (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics). But I think you won't be able to get exact answers for your questions even after studying these theories. | |
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| Sep 5, 2016 at 1:31 | comment | added | Evil | There are several questions here, not all of them are on-topic. What is proper already have answers (older questions). But maybe another angle, different questions it is ok. If you could improve your question and leave only on-topic part that would be great. (CC @gnasher729) The specification of this site (afaik) excludes pure speculation from the answers (there are other stacks where it is ok). Taking only narrow part - we do not exactly know how brain works (to the extent of actually simulating it) so this is open problem, but it is highly unlikely to be more powerful than Turing Machine. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 22:46 | comment | added | gnasher729 | "Could there be different maths/physics/CS that aliens use" would be a very niche question, but only answerable in maths/physics/CS so I suppose it would be ontopic. I don't think there are any answers that are more than speculation though, but on the other hand that doesn't make it off-topic. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 22:22 | history | edited | MOON | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2016 at 22:18 | comment | added | MOON | @Raphael. The alien example along side of other question I asked in this question are to describe what I mean. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | Raphael | If you think that aliens would think in any way similar to us, you may be interested in reading this short story. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | Raphael | This is partly "answered" by the CTT, partly philosophy and/or speculation ("Will aliens have different mathematics/physics/...?"). The title has little to do with the body of the question: we know that our hardware (and models) all conform to a single notion of computation, but that doesn't tell us anything about aliens. Not sure how appropriate this question is for this site. Community votes, please: subjective? Offtopic? | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | Pseudonym♦ | On the aliens question, incidentally, we won't necessarily expect aliens to build their computers out of silicon transistors, but we do expect them to have discovered binary. (Makes you wonder why they would bother with crop circles!) Similarly, they wouldn't necessarily have developed C++, or even Turing machines, but we expect they would have discovered lambda calculus because of the Curry-Howard isomorphism. | |
| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:17 | history | edited | MOON | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:06 | comment | added | Yuval Filmus | See Church–Turing thesis. Turing actually took his inspiration from human computers. | |
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| Sep 4, 2016 at 21:03 | history | asked | MOON | CC BY-SA 3.0 |