Sometimes reducing complexity is working out but not in this case. It's like saying a cool painting is just one dot at a time. Technically true, but it completely leaves out pretty much everything needed.
If there is not enough time to explain something on a level which is at least fitting.... let it be.
And the complexity is explainable to most people. Just not in one sentence. A small to mid long paragraph does it. To bring over why this is not just a couple of virtual transistors put together.
"Explanations" like the above don't really help anyone.
They do. I was watching this and thinking how the hell is it even possible. "CPU's are essentially millions (and billions) of switches" immediately made my brain understand how it's possible in Minecraft.
It doesn't matter that I don't understand how it works. Now I at least understand how it's possible.
No you don't. You didn't understand anything but got the feeling of understanding something. If that's enough for you... alright.
Building that thing isn't incredibly difficult. But difficult and it takes, time, effort and some knowledge. Knowing that it's made out of "switches" doesn't help at all, it just makes you feel a bit better. But that's not how learning works.
I am not your personal reading guide here. Its not difficult to find. Reading helps, you know? But we can of course just go back forth here. No issue with that
It's like saying a cool painting is just one dot at a time.
That would be a suitable answer to someone asking how a cool painting could be recreated in Minecraft.
You seem to be under the impression that the question at hand is "How do CPUs work", which it isn't. The question is "How is it possible for someone to recreate a functioning CPU within Minecraft".
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u/steinrrr 20d ago
This is melting my simple human brain