Irrational Computing Workshop
- Introduction
- Basics

Irrational Computing Workshop

November 28th 2PM, _____-micro_research, berlin

Introduction

Body/Space of Computation/Logic

Digital (v. lat. digitus, “Finger”)

“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Leibniz: Staffelwalze,

Counting

Half Adder Wikipedia

Zähler (3 Bit Counter) Video

Mechanical Logic

Mechanical logic of Zuse's Z1

Mechanical memory of Zuse's Z4

Marble adding machine
Logic gates using toys
Domino logic

Two Types of Mechanical Reversible Logic casino en ligne

DIY Transistors

Doping
The Book of the Transistor, J. Kendall
Instruments of Amplification, H. P. Friedrichs
Home Transistor Group
The Xtal Society

Logic organs/Artificial Neural Networks

“A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity”
by McCulloch/Pitts (1943)

“specialized organs”, “general control organs” and “memory organ”

Logic Alphabet Project

“We need a better set of signs for and, or, if.”
Shea Zellweger

X-stem Logic Alphabet models at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, CA (Wikipedia)

www.logic-alphabet.net

Technologie/Computers as philosophical and epistemologic instruments/amplifiers.

Ars generalis ultima/Ars magna
The Ultimate General Art (1305)
Ramon Llull

Leibnitz,The Monadology /A Unifying principle
Turing: universial machine

Basics

Binary Digit

Shannon: The Ultimate Machine 1
Shannon: The Ultimate machine 2
Shannon: The Ultimate machine 3
Shannon: The Ultimate machine 4
Claude E. Shannon
Information-Theory
Article on Shannon
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»Every digital device is really an analogical device which distinguishes region of attraction rather than by a direct measurement. In other words, a certain time of non-reality pushed far enough will make any device digital. Supposing I have a block here, supposing I drill conical holes into it, now this could be used as an analogy. I could put things here or there. I distinguish these reasons [meint er regions?], however, not by actually giving a map of the region but what the ball will roll into. In [159] other words, as I emphasize as the important measurement, the whole field of attraction of these, the probability that the ball will stand at the edge of regions in balance has become extremely small. I could do this to a degree by introducing not an absolute separation but a quantity which went up faster than the first power. I could get devices intermediate between digital and numerical devices. The important thing of the digital device is the use of non-linearity in | order to amplify the distinction between fields of attraction and that can be done to a greater or lesser degree. I am considering it now from the physical point of view of the human[:] instead of taking the places it rolls into. […] My indeterminacy would be something intermediate between what it would be with a pure analogical and a pure digital device. I think it is necessary to consider the physics of digital devices.«

Norbert Wiener