Re: A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE


"John Edser" <edser@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "g" gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>snip<
>>>From first quick reading, I sense you have an aversion to mathematical
>>models and computer simulations.
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> JE:-
> No, just an adverse reaction to their chronic misuse. I have employed pure
> mathematics, e.g. set theory to illustrate that reversible intersecting
> sets
> are not empirically the same as nested sets where set nesting reversal can
> reverse cause and effect EMPIRICALLY. I can prove using a mathematical
> model
> that when you allow gene fitness epistasis into Hamilton's Rule it fails
> entirely.

John,

I am thrilled to learn that you respect the wise and PRUDENT of digital
algorithms, and share you concern over their over-use. My knowledge is
virtually nil, compared to yours. But I do read profusely, and because I
CARE about such things as this -- enormously.

Somewhere in my reading I have come across mention that at least one
researcher is, even now, working on a model that is 3-D and would take far
too long to run on any single computer on the market so far. The author
(researcher) indicated he has direct knowledge of at least one computer
design which could do the job, and ALSO is capable of being mass-produced at
a price at which there would be sufficient demand to reach (what I jokingly
will call here) critical buyer mass. (A computer that costs so much that
only a few universities and mega-corporations might be able to afford it,
would sell at a far higher cost per unit, if only a few were made; whereas,
if the price can be brought to a sufficiently low level, without loss of
speed, a sufficient number could be produced and sold to serve as a large
mass-buyer-denominator over which to place tooling and other costs.)

Probably you know, offhand, how awfully much more processing speed and Ram
are necessary for adding the third dimension to any algorithm. All I know
(from many coincidental sources read for pleasure, only) is that
the leap is a large one -- perhaps exponentially so.

g

> Regards,
>
> John Edser
> Independent Researcher
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> edser@xxxxxxxxxx
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