From: ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Wed May 06 1998 - 18:55:42 MDT
At 10:29 5/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>There was an article in Extropy many years ago about electronic circuits
>which depended on time travel. It looked like it would be possible to
>do significant amounts of computation in zero time. You set up a system
>which will be inconsistent unless a certain equation is satisfied, and
>presto, the non-contradiction principle automatically means that the
>system satisfies the equation.
>
Sounds like a feedback loop to me. No wierd science needed, just control theory.
I would like to read that article. Can you tell me where to find a copy?
Chuck Kuecker
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