Posted: Jul 17, 2017 7:13 am
John Platko wrote:
Basic math 2-1=1.
Now show how the processing of that information is the following of an energy gradient. Are we talking joules?
It's a non-trivial task to produce such an account even for a basic binary adder circuit. Harder still for a decimal calculator and mind boggling at the level of speaking to Siri and getting an answer. Explaining the course of a river is also beyond such explanation at a detailed practical level. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's wrong.
Remember the domino logic? That is a way to think of computation as 'following an energy gradient. It could be quantified in Joules, if you like, although such a measure doesn't seem useful. It's the pattern of falling that counts, not the total drop height.