Talk:Homeostat

Retrieving simulator

Hello,

I'm eagerly interested in using the simulator. Tried to get to the code by the link provided under "The Homeostat simulation" in the link list, but in vain. May be I'm doing something wrong. But I can't get any code there. Tried to have a close look by inspection of the pages source code. But nothing. Could anybody be so kind and provide some instructions? I would appreciate that very much.

Greetings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.232.212.205 (talk • contribs) 11:16, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Around 1976 I was writing a simulation of the homeostat on a PDP 12 in Brunel University's Psychology Department when Gordon Pask said to me "It won't work". This was because of the distinction that Computing still fails to make between the serial processing of digital computers and truly field concurrent processes of the Homeostat. Turing was wrong (see article) to claim he could simulate the Homeostat as indeed was Horace Townsend (although his work can be used as a visual aid for teaching but not research) whose simulator is likely being referred to above.Nick Green (talk) 04:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]