From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 17:27:45 PDT
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: GUT and P=NP
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Ray wrote:
> Everything is an algorithm
 
This does not appear to be a very useful concept of what
an algorithm is.
 
>   I can't think of a single thing which is non-algorithmic
> except true randomness or non-determinism. 
 
How about any process where the state and the change
between one state and another state can be described
tolerably simply in some language that is not explicitly
algorithmic, but which is enormously difficult, complex,
and expensive to describe in explicitly algorithmic
language, for example water pouring through a channel?
 
 
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