How was the first computer programmed? With what? How does it know 1 means yes and 0 means no?
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You can make a computer with ropes and pulleys. It’s just difficult to program because you have to physically adjust everything.
The computer doesn’t have a meaning for anything. We’re the ones giving meaning. It just so happens that some physical processes are greatly analogous to our mental processes we call math.
We’ve figured out ways to represent information in a way that can be manipulated by these same processes.
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