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Comment by DayDollar

The actual mental slavery, is the notion of instructions. You have Operand A, Operand B, and a hidden Operand I, which operates on given Operands, encoded in a endless chain of drudgery.

Now imagine a system, which is deterministic, but purely phyics based, data flows continously at maximum possible speed, by beeing copied from A to *, and operations, are executed purely as a attribute of data- meaning, this river carrying sand, carrys certain certain sand, again purely as a property to a stone in the river, where it is grinded, split, etc..

Then again, the new data, having diffrent "physical" properties, is sped along to other streams.

The art to program such a machine, would be to understand the physics of data, of the system, to place a stone upriver, and to know, where downriver to reach, to collect the gem, liberated and polished.

Such dataphysics also has interesting inherent properties. Interaction can never reach farther then the number of processors in parallel times the maximum length of data. So dataphysics has a lightcone, within which it is fully parallel. One could take data out and insert it into this determinstic simulations, simply by staying out of sight and keeping causality. But i digress.

parent DayDollar 6 years ago

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