Ray wrote:
Everything is an algorithm
This does not appear to be a very useful concept of what an algorithm is.
I can't think of a single thing which is non-algorithmic except true randomness or non-determinism.
How about any process where the state and the change between one state and another state can be described tolerably simply in some language that is not explicitly algorithmic, but which is enormously difficult, complex, and expensive to describe in explicitly algorithmic language, for example water pouring through a channel? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we James A. Donald are. True law derives from this right, not from jamesd@netcom.com the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.