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|    olcott to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: I spent 22 years on the notion of un    |
|    22 Dec 25 13:09:13    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.theory       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/22/2025 1:05 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 12/22/25 1:55 PM, olcott wrote:       >> 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.       >>       >       > So?       >              Requiring H(P) to report on the basis of UTM(P) is not       derivable by applying finite string transformations to       the input to H(P).              --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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