i always thought that it is impossible to actually know the state of every gate and shift register in a cpu. so it is not deterministic umashankar
i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:48:22 -0700 > From: gre...@math.ucla.edu > To: sursound@music.vt.edu > Subject: Re: [Sursound] distance perception in virtual environments(OT) > > > The deterministic universe idea departed from serious science > almost 100 years ago since qunatum mechanics is by nature > nondeterministic. (More precisely, 80 some years ago if you want to wait > for people to have realized exactly how intrinsic the nondeterminacy > was--Heisenberg formulated his uncertainty principle in 1927 as I recall). > On the other hand, it is not clear to me that this really affects > computers directly. > They do freeze up at what appear to be random times and for unknown > reasons. But I would be prepared to believe that they are not truly > random if one could look down in the works as it were. > But no one scientific seriously doubts that the universe is > nondeterministic. > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20110428/8d401f9f/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
