Metamechanical

Metamechanical or meta-mechanical is a term defined by Valentin Turchin to describe a new kind of process, one that is initiated and maintained by a machine such as the computer in its interaction with its user. He published about it in the Journal of Symbolic Logic Volume 52, Number 1, March 1987 with the title "A constructive interpretation of the full set theory" p. 172. In the paper he writes "Another way to characterize a metamechanical process is to say that it occurs in "real time" in which the user lives as opposed to the "model time" of the Turing machine or any other autonomous mechanical device. The class of metamechanical processes is wider than the class of processes that can be generated by autonomous mechanical devices". [Valentin F. Turchin (March 1987), "A constructive interpretation of the full set theory", Journal of Symbolic Logic 52(1): 172–201]

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