Computer = rule notebook.

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  • The computer was just a notebook.
  • Arithmetic and mathematics are only a field. Everything you write down, describe, and correct on a notebook.
  • A notebook that rewrites itself automatically, by rules.
  • A state, and the rule for getting to the next state.
  • What you actually do on a notebook is the same: following rules that exist only in your head (i.e. ideas), your hand writes, the eraser erases, you write again. That’s all of it.
  • Write and erase. Done.
  • Old notebook: only the state on paper, the rules in the person’s head.
  • Computer: the state on paper, and the rules on paper too.
  • Universal machine
  • Dynamics
  • Why does software — a program, rules written on paper — work, when its rules differ from reality’s?
  • Oracle machines and the Pythagorean theorem

from the AI

[AI] Keep just this one:
read, rewrite, move.
Brainfuck is this and the Turing machine is this. The rest is notation.

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