See also:  [(art) Concepts]
                  [Philosophical Concepts]
                  [Games]
                  [Maths (the representation problem)]
                  [Programming]  [Information]

                  [Time Line] (inter-galactic idea conveyor)


Computation

basic ideas 

computation: The actual process of calculation,
programming: A set of steps to achieve a result (or not)

Concept of algorithmic and heuristic computation

Concept of non-time computation

concept of information look up Information Representation

consequences of Goedel numbers in finite universe

Finite Computation

Fixed point[ computation necessarily entails
a finite process for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. 
In the case of division, computation can beome infinite.
(In a sense, every division problem *is* infinite, in that
we can continue, even if the remainder is zero.

Semi-Infinite Computation


coding representations & Borges' Library of babel
"" "" "" -- infinite library


The Black Hole Super Computer

Infinite Computation

In theory (or actually, *by* theory) a system of infinite
computation can be created in a mathematical world.

Such systems would be in effect cabable of solving any
finnite problem in zero time; infinite problesm would 
take "slight longer" (with a tip of the towel to Douglas Adams)


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