[ExI] [Wittrs] Re: The System Level Issue.

[John Clark]

On Jul 5, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Gordon Swobe wrote:

> consider that computations have descriptive but not explanatory powers.

I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

> does my simulation actually constitute a person driving a nail into wood? Or cause such a thing to happen? Of course not. 

> I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

> It does not follow from the fact that we can compute process X that process X = a computation.

> I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

> digital simulations or emulations of real process do not actually perform the processes they simulate.

I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

> They serve only as models of or theories about those real processes.

> I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.
> 
> we should not however conflate our models and theories with the real processes they're about.

I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

> A model of a thing is not the thing modeled

I could be mistaken but I believe you may have mentioned that before.

 John K Clark


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