Trivial and non-trivial machines

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planted: 19/08/2021last tended: 27/11/2021

Heinz von Foerster.

A trivial machine is a machine whose operations are not influenced by previous operations. It is analytically determinable, independent from previous operations, and thus predictable. For non-trivial machines, however, this is no longer true as the problem of identification, i.e., deducing the structure of the machine from its behavior, becomes unsolvable.

– The Heinz von Foerster Page

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