arfle comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MatthewB 26 December 2009 03:21:47PM 0 points [-]

And, now I see why I am skeptical of hypercomputation. It seems to all necessitate some form of computation over an infinite number of steps. This would require some severe bending of the rules or constraints of physics, wouldn't it?

timtyler's comment below mine seems to be appropriate:

It is a field with an imaginary object of study.

Comment author: arfle 27 July 2010 12:53:06AM 0 points [-]

Doesn't Newtonian gravity require computation over an infinite number of steps?