• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    A mark on a stick can encode an infinite amount of information. That doesn’t make it a computer.

    • Pissipissini Johnson 🩵! :D@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it does. Why not? A computer is essentially just a system of inputs and connected levers. How much do you know about stuff like kernel code or writing computer programs?

      Couldn’t you write something that looks a whole lot like a very logical code on your stick, and use it to analyse a maths problem? What if you wanted to perform a task like multiplication by hand?