How many of you like HP41C calculators?

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Thu Nov 20 04:06:13 2003

> But is not LIFE on the molecular level some thing like a bunch
> computing machines that computes structure rather than logic.

Something like, maybe. But since chemical interactions involve
randomness randomness coming from the underlying quantum mechanics and
thus being, as far as we can tell, true randomness...nothing
deterministic is an accurate model.

And that includes nondeterminstic Turing machines, as I studied them,
since they don't pick one possible transition randomly but instead take
all possible transitions (which is why the power set construction works
to determinize such a machine).

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