Comment by altruios

why should all computing be deterministic?

let me show you this "genius"/"wrong-thinking" person as to say about AL(artificial life) and deterministic computing.

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/

https://www.youtube.com/user/DaveAckley

To sum up a bunch of their content: You can make intractable problems solvable/crunchable if you allow just a little error into the result (which is reduced the longer the calculation calculates). And this is acceptable for a number of use cases where initial accuracy is less important that instant feedback.

It is radically different from a Von Neumann model of a computer - where there is a deterministic 'totalitarian finger pointer' pointing to some registry (and only one registry at a time) is an inherently limited factor. In this model - each computational resource (a unit of ram, and a processing unit) fights for and coordinates reality with it's neighbors without any central coordination.

Really interesting stuff. still in its infancy...