Unified Theory

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels-2 on Jun 06, 2006; 6:17pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/FW-SFI-Seminar-Complexity-Parallel-Computation-and-Statistical-Physics-tp521927p521951.html

Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Where is the difference between steps, "depth" and time,
> if "the depth of a system" is simply defined in terms of the
> number of parallel computational steps needed to simulate it ?
> Depth seems to be just another word for (virtual) time.
Hmm, if I find an two organisms that take in the particles B C D A and
both return A B C D, but one does it in 16 and another in 5.5 units of
energy or time (e.g. O(n^2) vs. O(n log n) time complexity) then I
should infer the function being computed (their behavior) is different?