Re:Computational Thinking Benefits Society (2014)
by Jtsummers on Thursday October 13, 2016 @04:50PM
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Computers are any thing that computes. People are quite capable of computing. To restrict the concept to machines (and only certain classes) makes it difficult to talk about the fundamentals and models of computation.
Re:Computational Thinking Benefits Society (2014)
by js8 on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:43AM
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See - that's exactly what I point out in my other comment. It's perfectly logical (or rational) to think of humans as computers, yet doing so in practice is a terrible idea. You're basically advocating a certain model because it is simple, disregarding that it is a bad model of reality. It's one of the reasons why so much of economics really sucks.
There are so many processes for humans that are based on assumptions that humans have large and perfect memory, that there is no cognitive overhead in task switching, and that humans can repeat the same task exactly over and over. On the other hand, I also see foolish people who try to automate processes designed for humans with computers, for example, manual entry of data into database.