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Originally Posted by seebs
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Originally Posted by Michali
So, by your lead, for any state in Conway's life, that state has the same value as its end state. Would you agree to this? Would you agree to the use of the identical term "value" in both arithmetic situations and states in Conway's life?
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No.
"Value" is specific to arithmetic, it doesn't work for causality. |
Does value work for logical coniditionals? Like, in A if and only if B. Does A have the same value as B?
Wikipedia explains "value (mathematics)" as
In mathematics, value commonly refers to the 'output' of a function. In the most basic case, that of unary, single-valued functions, there is one input (the argument) and one output (the value of the function).
So why can't value ("the output of a function") apply to Conway's life?