From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 12:53:21 EDT
on 2008-04-03 00:33 Paul Cockshott wrote:
>
> Computation is always everywhere a material process governed by
> material laws, it is these material laws, the laws of physics, that
> give rise to the possibility of mathematics.
>
This gives a deeper meaning to that famous quote by Dijkstra:
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about
telescopes."
//Dave Z
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