Some good points here, but anyone calling for a "metaphor-free theory" doesn't understand what a theory is https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer …
Thank you! I think the planimeter is a weak hypercomputer. Like to discuss? @The_Lagrangian
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I've never understood the insistence that the planimeter computes area :)
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but it does: it implements a mechanism that performs an integral calculation, harvesting comp from physics
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computation isn't even the most convenient *description* of it let alone explanation
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what do you think it is?
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