Lexicon of Arguments

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II 198
Nature/Numbers/Genz: thesis: nature calculates itself! For example, 2 litres of water and 1 litre of water are 3 litres of water. ((s) KantVs)
II 199
Quantum Mechanics/Genz: in quantum mechanics too, nature calculates when looking at quantities of individual cases rather than the individual cases.
Nature/Genz: nature cannot calculate wrongly, though, because it provides us with the yardstick for correct calculation.
For example, billiard balls: the mathematician uses an algorithm that assumes that the balls move evenly in a straight line.
Which algorithm does nature use?
>Algorithms.
II 200
Computer: a computer has two methods available: a) local and b) global.
a) local: divides the movement of the first ball into equally long sections and determines whether the other ball is nearby, in the last section it gives the other ball the speed of the first one and stops the first one.
b) global: here, it is first calculated when the balls collide, then the locations are calculated as usual, but without asking for the distance of the other ball, and then it calculates them according to the values of the reversed speeds.
Nature: even if nature does it like a computer, you still have to ask, how?
II 201
N.B.: it depends on how effectively it calculates - whether matter immediately after the Big Bang would have been sufficient to build a computer that could have calculated the development of the universe.
World as a Computer/computer model/Genz: this picture has replaced the mathematical view of the world for some. Their calculations are then logical equivalents to the calculations of a universal Turing machine.
>Computer model, >Computation.

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