Subj : Re: Polymorphism sucks [Was: Paradigms which way to go?]
To   : comp.programming,comp.object
From : Dmitry A. Kazakov
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 11:43 am

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:22:31 -0500, Chris Sonnack wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov writes:
> 
>>> Do you think fuzzy logic is implemented without binary?
>> 
>> Implemented is a wrong word here. Logic isn't implemented.
> 
> Oh.  So....er.... those fuzzy logic tools I was using a few years
> ago.... were they grown from, like, seeds or raised from pups? (-:

Ah, you meant to implement in the sense to use, to be based on. OK.
 
>>> Multi-state logic is built on binary logic.  Learn basic information
>>> theory.  It ALL can be broken down to 1s and 0s.  Every, um, BIT of it.
>> 
>> No, this is wrong.
> 
> (Has anyone informed Shannon?)

Hmm, was Shannon aware of Hilbert's program? I think he was. Anyway in the
times after Goedel, we know that there is no way to "break" everything down
to 1s and 0s. And even if there were one, neither fuzziness nor randomness
can be expressed in a deterministic system without some incomputable
elements. The simplest example is: you cannot write a non-pseudo random
generator.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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