EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic
The Jim Rutt Show
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Is the Mining Company Real?
Not everything that has a significant impact on the real world is real in particular sense, right? So there are actual things that are done in the world by this virtual thing called the coal mining company. It's very often difficult to say what the idea actually is because it only exists approximately across mines. We have a deterministic system with clear rules that allow us to decide whether a bit is set in a gate or not or in a register or not. This allows us to construct extremely precise models of the behavior in the computer and preordain the behavior of the computer.
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