Submission to : ‘ Journeys in Non - Classical Computation ’ ( GC 7 )

The real world exhibits concurrency at all levels of scale – from atomic, through human, to astronomic. This concurrency is endemic. Central points of control do not remain stable for long. Most of the novel paradigms identified in the GC7 description paper hint at something stronger – namely that central points of control actively work against the logic and efficiency of whatever it is that is we are trying to control/model/understand and that, in the long term, we must give up on it. The case in this submission is that it is necessary to give up on it now, that it is possible to do so, that it will be profitable to do so and that pushing through this particular gateway, by the mainstream computing community, will help set up the mindset for the much grander challenges outlined for this ‘journey’.