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by jpcooper 1985 days ago
How is he wrong about GIT?

What more general systems of computation are there than Turing? Are any in use? Are they really more general?

The claims of the generality of Actors seem to rely on continuous time and non-determinism. Actors, determinism, non-determinism, concurrency and the completeness axiom are models which we can use to express computation and our surroundings, and nothing more.

One man says lambda, another says actor. Given our models of physics; given Planck and Heisenberg, are they really different? If so, how? Measure theory rests on the completeness axiom, but it is just a very useful axiom.

Am I missing something?