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Re:Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept by pegasus on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:29AM (#48878561)
The Church-Turing thesis (the fact that all models of computation we've been able to come up with are equivalent) gives the necessary weight to that claim.
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Re:Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept by Diogenesian on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:43AM (#48881576)
The Church-Turing thesis is a statement about symoblic processes, and symbolism is simply not fundamental to the universe. It is fundamental to how humans understand the universe. That's the distinction.
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