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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
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Date: 4 Apr 92 03:02:29 GMT
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In article <1992Apr1.081958.10553@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>I note that any description of Chalmers' wacky notion of implementation is
>conspicuously absent from the above.

As if it was less wacky to hold the view that a rock counts as an
implementation of each and every FSA...

Whatever the correct notion of implementation may be, I think it should
be one that excludes arbitrary rocks, otherwise it simply is useless, and
definitely does not capture the thing we use this notion for.

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