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<jerrybro@uclink2.berkeley.edu> writes:

>rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) wrote:

>> [But then, I am quite willing
>> to consider automobile brakes to be a computational system.

>If you mean "computation" this broadly, then I won't argue if you
>say that the brain computes.


There's a much more direct connection between the braking system
and computation. Every aspect of the braking system obeys the laws
of physics and has been designed using mathematical computations
using the applicable laws of physics.  A simulation of this
system would use those exact equations and hence is, also
quite plainly, computation.

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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
