Re: computer models are not closed

Onar Aam (onar@HSR.NO)
Sun, 17 Sep 1995 22:26:35 +0100


In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Sep 1995 13:28:18 -0400 ." <199509171729.TAA27399@broremann.hsr.no>

>HOEWEVER,
>the relationship between the thermodynamics of the system being simulated and
>the thermodynamics of the computer doing tghe simulation is of no consequence

Agreed. There are two ways of looking thermodynamically at a computer model and
this is as software only or as software+hardware+context. The view I was
discussing was the software only. These two views have different and
incompatible energetic properties.

Onar.