Are we agreed? — Varde
My conclusion is that Philosophy of Programming' ought to be a field of philosophy, there's so much to discuss and debate and all of it would benefit the art of professional programming.
Are we agreed? — Varde
My interest in philosophy comes from programming. When you program, you create small functional models of the real world — pfirefry
You don't create a model. You create a program operating on voltages and currents. Which is encoded in these currents and voltages also — Raymond
As I made pfirefry understand — Raymond
The computer program, by means of computer language, lets, on the mega rythm of the computer clock, structured voltages appear which pull structured collections of 1s and 0s through the circuit wires. — Raymond
How can this be a model of the real thing? — Raymond
Nick Bostrom — Marchesk
There are actually no 1s and 0s. — emancipate
How can that be a model of, say, the weather? — Raymond
This is really a nonsense conversation. — emancipate
Build Me A Woman, Ten Feet Tall — god must be atheist
"Alright alright alright!" — Raymond
This is really a nonsense conversation — emancipate
Nature doesn't operate according to a program and only a scaled (up or down) version of an object can be a model. — Raymond
Why can't be something else (A) be a model of a portion of reality (B) where A is not strictly speaking a precise replica of B? Such as a computer program can be modelling (create model) of cars arriving at a service station at random, and seeing how much waiting time the owners of the cars must suffer to get their cars' problems fixed. — god must be atheist
How can a free process, say a stone moving freely in the air, be modeled by a process that progresses by applying a programmed force field on electrons in wires? — Raymond
So they keep it away from the common man at all costs. — god must be atheist
The stone does NOT move freely in air. It obeys at least three influential forces: force of gravity, force of inertia (momentum) and force of air resistance — god must be atheist
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