Anyone familiar with the concept of the Watch that reproduces watches?
I was listening to a talk by A.E.Wilder-Smith where he talked about a theoretical machine. He said the name, but I cannot come close enough in spelling to find anything on it. Something like the Fanoyman or phnoyman machine.
The concept was the person wanted a watch that made other watches. But the reproducing watch was so complex that it had too many parts/steps that it would break down. So it also had to have built in, a mechanism to detect errors which made it even more complex. But detecting errors wasn't enough. It had to diagnose the errors as well to see where the errors started and why which made it more complex. But again, that wasn't enough because without fixing the error, it was no good. So they had to build in another device so it could repair itself. Eventually the design of this machine became so complex, it was determined man WAS the machine.
It was much better explained and had equations and all. But again, I can't come close to spelling it right to find it. Anyone familiar with it?
In His Service... Arthur Smith
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Permalink Reply by Kate Taylor Warren on -
I did some googling and came up with this:
teleonomic Von Neumann machine
I'm watching Wilder-Smith on Youtube doing a talk called "Is Man a Machine?" I think he'll talk about it in this lecture.
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Permalink Reply by Arthur Smith on -
That's it, thanks!
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