Jochen Fromm wrote: > Where is the difference between steps, "depth" and time, > if "the depth of a system" is simply defined in terms of the > number of parallel computational steps needed to simulate it ? > Depth seems to be just another word for (virtual) time. Hmm, if I find an two organisms that take in the particles B C D A and both return A B C D, but one does it in 16 and another in 5.5 units of energy or time (e.g. O(n^2) vs. O(n log n) time complexity) then I should infer the function being computed (their behavior) is different?
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