Chris Kempes: evaluation

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…You invoked David Deutsch in in your paper. So he had this book, The The Beginning of Infinity, and he spoke about the importance of separating matter and logic. What did he mean by that? I could look at a computer and just say, it's a bunch of electrons moving around. Right? It's it's, you know, some complicated network with a current running over it. A river is a complicated network with a current running over it, right? What's unique about a computer is that we've built it in a certain way to perform certain logical operations in a repeatable way so that we can give it inputs and give it outputs. And in the case of generalized computers, we can reprogram it and have sort of an arbitrary notion of what inputs and outputs we want, right? We can write software to it. So I think that's really the key is to say in the crudest sense, the physical description leaves out a whole bunch of information, right? And to understand certain architectures or why the architecture is there, you would need to bring in a logical or a software notion, and I think that's what that separation is about. Yeah. Can we talk about assembly theory? So you've got a paper out about this, and it's a way of kind of quantifying complexity, I suppose, by looking at how something can be built step by step. Can you explain what that is?…

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