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   olcott to Richard Damon   
   Re: I spent 22 years on the notion of un   
   22 Dec 25 12:55:12   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.theory   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/22/2025 12:43 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > On 12/22/25 1:40 PM, olcott wrote:   
   >   
   >> You are getting closer, good job !   
   >> Anything outside of what they CAN do   
   >> is outside the scope of computation.   
   >   
   > Nope.   
   >   
   > That just shows you don't understand the field.   
   >   
   > Since the problem is to determine what IS computable, limiting what you   
   > can ask to just computable things is nonsense.   
   >   
      
   Only those things that can be derived by applying   
   finite string transformations to inputs are computable.   
      
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   Copyright 2025 Olcott

              My 28 year goal has been to make
       "true on the basis of meaning expressed in language"
       reliably computable.

              This required establishing a new foundation
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