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From: "Peter Macapia" <peter.dora@tmo.blackberry.net>

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:27:26
To:"Peter Macapia" <petermacapia@labdora.com>
Subject: Summary lect 10


Conflict, Problem, Question
We looked at two problems, one relating to Turing's invention as a thought experiment - how it led to computation and the other about algorithm and geometry. Instead of looking at Turing's problem as a problem we could relate in its entirety to architecture I was asking if we could just understand something of the implications of his use of a binary system, or of the discreteness of something being 1 or 0. And so I was asking in what sense can we think of cases of the discrete. And we looked at mathematical and other types of discrete, integers vs irrational. And then I asked us to consider continuity. Discrete, it seems is the basis of computation, of the algorithm. It is a whole unto itself. Frank suggested at first that there is a problem of representation here, of symbolization. But we soon came to the issue of the fact that the discrete in its essence doesn't really require that. It is a structural and formal property, not one of symbolization.
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