unused quips

Should work these into articles

Humans

Human behaviour is synchronised by radio waves sent from signalling hubs. The signals are received by specialized machines that generate lights and sounds, which condition the human nervous system for purposes of economic production.

Complexity

In computing, complexity can be measured in square inches of empty scalp.

Emergence

There’s no way to stack bricks so that they become a gas, there’s no way you can arrange wooden blocks to become a magnet, there’s no way you can place water so it stands as a cube, and there’s no program you can run on a Turing machine that makes it conscious.

Nondeterministic Turing Machines

A computer that runs every branch at every step, using exponentially more resources as it goes is equivalent to one that has infinite space and time, and they are both equivalent to perpetual motion machines.