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By Aurélie Goulon, Arthur Duprat, Gérard Dreyfus (auth.), Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Gheorghe Păun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Susan Stepney (eds.)

This ebook constitutes the refereed complaints of the fifth foreign convention on Unconventional Computation, UC 2006, held in York, united kingdom, in September 2006.

The 17 revised complete papers provided including 4 invited complete papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen for inclusion within the booklet. All present facets of unconventional computation are addressed - conception in addition to experiments and functions. regular subject matters are: traditional computing together with quantum, mobile, molecular, neural and evolutionary computing; chaos and dynamical structures established computing; and numerous proposals for computations that transcend the Turing model.

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J. Dinneen, G. P˘ aun, M. J. P´erez-Jim´enez, and G. Rozenberg, editors, Fourth International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC’05), volume 3699 of LNCS, pages 237–250, Sevilla, Oct. 2005. Springer. 30. D. Woods and T. J. Naughton. An optical model of computation. Theoretical Computer Science, 334(1–3):227–258, Apr. 2005. 31. F. T. S. Yu, S. Jutamulia, and S. Yin, editors. Introduction to information optics. Academic Press, 2001. If a Tree Casts a Shadow Is It Telling the Time? com Abstract.

Perhaps they believed that the ideas had been implanted in their minds as a result of their special status or as a result of some special words or rituals that they performed. Perhaps they were just transmitting ideas that had been transmitted to them. Presumably they didn’t believe that they themselves made up these ideas. Most likely they didn’t ask themselves this question. If a Tree Casts a Shadow Is It Telling the Time? 3 45 Time Computers We used natural processes to help us express our ideas about time-the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of the earth, moon, and sun.

They don’t exist in the computer memory in which these words are stored. 4 We go to such lengths to make this point because our position is that computations, like 2 3 4 Berkeley’s answer is that it makes a sound because God, who is always everywhere, hears it. We are not taking a stand on nominalism vs. realism. Although we believe that our (human) ideas about how nature should be described are not arbitrary and that entities other than the elementary particles exist (see Abbott [4]), that is not at issue here.

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