Mirror notations: Symbol manipulation without inscription manipulation (Q1288135)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286053
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286053 |
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Mirror notations: Symbol manipulation without inscription manipulation (English)
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20 March 2000
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The paper proposes the intriguing idea of using a mirror notation for performing computation. This illustrates what the author calls perspectival computation. The medium of representation is not changed during the computation. Instead the reader's orientation to that inscription is modified. This type of computation may avoid some of the physical limitations of standard computational models. The paper sketches the implementation of a propositional calculus in mirror notation and discusses some of the philosophical implications of this idea.
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algorithmic complexity
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computation
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Cambridge event
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duals
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mirror
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NP-completeness
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symbol manipulation
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Turing machine
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propositional calculus
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philosophical implications
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