Re: Rosen's concept of time and complexity

Jack Martinelli (jmartinelli@GEOCITIES.COM)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 08:50:20 -0800


>Don mikulecky replies:
>
>John J. Kineman wrote:
>
>> Kineman replies to Mikulecky regarding Rosen's concept of time:
>>
>> Note: this picks up from the thread: Re: Rosen's def => A car is not a
>> machine !
>> and also: Re: Can we agree on what a machine is?
>>
>> >> "We may point out explicitly that there is no absolute or objective
>> >> character to [time]."

Whoa! This is false. Although there is no absolute character to time, it
is farily easy to construct an
objective procedure for measuring it. Our sense of time is subjective.
If this is what you want to model, then good luck.

[...]

>ah...there's the rub....as Rosen points out...the best we can do is "label"
> time,
>we do not measure it.

If we don't measure time, what is it that a clock does? And how would you
compare this kind of encoding to our procedure for measuring length? Is
there anything common to both?

Regards

Jack Martinelli

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