[uoaei]

That is precisely my point...

[danuker]

Indeed.

Your comment prepared me for the experience, but the ball did not drop in my case until taeric's comment (which incidentally missed your point).

To taeric: Anything IS an analog computer of itself. Doing it for real completely bypasses the need to simulate.

[feet]

This is the explanation of why the brain is an analog biochemical computer

[taeric]

By this, though, you have to then consider mere half life decay as a calculator. Such that the definition becomes pointless.

[uoaei]

> Such that the definition becomes pointless.

This is a subjective, normative claim. As such it doesn't hold much water.

[taeric]

How is this, then. If I can model everything as a calculation, such that all things are computers. What isn't a computer?

[uoaei]

Exactly my point :)

[taeric]

And my point is if your definition for a thing is so expansive that everything can fit, it seems a poor definition.