If a Tree Casts a Shadow Is It Telling the Time?
If a Tree Casts a Shadow Is It Telling the Time?
Physical processes are computations only when we use them to externalize thought. Computation is the performance of one or more fixed processes within a contingent environment. We reformulate the Church-Turing thesis so that it applies to programs rather than to computability. When suitably formulated agent-based computing in an open, multi-scalar environment represents the current consensus view of how we interact with the world. But we don't know how to formulate multi-scalar environments.
12 pages. Submitted for conference presentation
- California State University Los Angeles United States
- California State University, San Marcos United States
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - General Literature, Computer Science - Multiagent Systems, General Literature (cs.GL), Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - General Literature, Computer Science - Multiagent Systems, General Literature (cs.GL), Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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