Re: False Knowledge

"OmegaZero2003" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Eray Ozkural exa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > You may be right about Martians, how can we expect them to understand
> > a program if they know nothing about computer science?
> 
> Yet the rules of physics execute on processes in Universe. It isnot a
> stretch to imagine another society with knowldge of physics to realize
> physics can be looked at as Steven Weinberg does.
> 
> From ther - the concept of a program is close.
> 
> Note that if Martians knew everything about physics, that also strongly
> implies they are capable of learning.  Learning how some machine processes
> inputs and delivers outputs (in the parlance of physics of course), wuld be
> trivial for them, and thence could easily lead them into learning new
> concepts about manipulation of matter/energy in "programming-like" concepts.

No, it's no stretch to assume that one with an advanced knowledge of
physics will know a bit of programming!

At one point, they would be simulating physical systems I suppose.

My point was that of course we can't expect everybody to understand
everything despite the fact that computation is universal and sooner
or later every civilization will discover it!