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Is life a form of computation?

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1. nathan_douglas ◴[23 Sep 25 22:49 UTC] No.45353820[source]▶
Classic John Von Neumann, inventing both the Von Neumann architecture and non-Von Neumann architectures.
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2. dvsfish ◴[24 Sep 25 01:45 UTC] No.45355294[source]▶
What a brilliant irony. Excellent comment.

I suppose "non-Von Neumann architectures" would just instead have someone else's name associated with it had it been invented by someone else.