Venus Mousetrap
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| Quote (dvunkannon @ June 21 2010,09:49) | | Quote (Venus Mousetrap @ June 21 2010,08:46) | | Take your calculations of complexity for example. For people who are obsessed with tiny bio-machines, you don't actually study machinery at all. You study brute force combinations of molecules. It's a bit like claiming to have written a chess-playing program when all it's doing is checking each of the 10^120 possible games of chess each move. That has nothing to do with how chess is actually played. |
Actually, the ID reasoning is closer to this:
The number of possible chess games is 10^10^50. If every particle in the universe played a complete game in Planck interval for the entire history of the universe, only a vanishingly small number of games could be played compared to the total number of games. Therefore it is impossible for a computer to play chess. |
So I was a little off with the chess games figure then :)
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