# Computer Architecture **Domain:** Computer Engineering **Doc Type:** Field **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Stack Machine]], [[B5000]], [[Machine Intelligence Continuum]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Computer architecture specifies the operational organization of processors, memory, instructions, data and interfaces visible to software. ## Corpus Context Architecture determines which symbolic operations are natural, expensive or unavailable within a computational substrate. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "I suspect that digital computers, too, may eventually start to think, but only by growing up to become analog computers, first." > **— George Dyson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Digital Computers May Need to Become Analog to Think by George Dyson|Digital Computers May Need to Become Analog to Think by George Dyson]] > "Now we are told that an exascale supercomputer will be able to solve the mysteries of the human brain." > **— Seth Lloyd**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd|Exascale Computing May Confront the Human Brain by Seth Lloyd]] > "One gloomy possibility is that we become zombie consumers of a machine-run world straight out of an apocalyptic futuristic film noir." > **— Athena Vouloumanos**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos|Humans Could Become Consumers of a Machine-Run World by Athena Vouloumanos]] > "The patterns involved can easily exceed what the human mind can grasp." > **— Bart Kosko**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko|Machine Patterns Can Exceed Human Understanding by Bart Kosko]] > "One intriguing possibility is that for a machine to think about thinking, it will need to have something like free will." > **— Hans Halvorson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson|Thinking About Thinking May Require Free Will by Hans Halvorson]]