You’re right that I meant more than “mere format”. Let’s taboo the word. And for that matter “wrong” too.
Usually when we think of true information or true belief we consider only the belief itself (the NS equations). Beliefs only exist in contexts (human brains, software implementations, even ink and paper), and some of those contexts are not adequate in themselves to take advantage of the belief. It’s not a question of having different information. It’s a question of having inadequate computational resources. Or in another way of looking at it, it’s a question of having a capable, powerful computational context whose structure is not optimized for the problem at hand.
You’re right that I meant more than “mere format”. Let’s taboo the word. And for that matter “wrong” too.
Usually when we think of true information or true belief we consider only the belief itself (the NS equations). Beliefs only exist in contexts (human brains, software implementations, even ink and paper), and some of those contexts are not adequate in themselves to take advantage of the belief. It’s not a question of having different information. It’s a question of having inadequate computational resources. Or in another way of looking at it, it’s a question of having a capable, powerful computational context whose structure is not optimized for the problem at hand.