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|    olcott to Richard Damon    |
|    Re: I spent 22 years on the notion of un    |
|    22 Dec 25 14:01:28    |
      XPost: comp.theory, sci.math, comp.theory       From: polcott333@gmail.com              On 12/22/2025 1:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote:       > On 12/22/25 2:09 PM, olcott wrote:       >> 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).       >>       >       > Sure it is. Why isn't UTM(P) not a valid finite string transformation?       >              You are not precise enough in your use of the exact       words that I precisely specified.              > You can't limit the transformations to what are actually IN H, since       > that just breaks things as then every machine is correct, since it       > computed the transform that it defined.       >              There does not exist any H(P) such that P calls       H(P) and has the same behavior as H1(P) where       P does not call H1.              Both H(P) and H1(P) do apply the best possible       finite string transformation rules to their inputs       and derive different results because there is       a pathological relationship between H and P.              > Your problem is you can't think, as you don't know the basics to work       > with, because you CHOSE to be IGNORNT and thus made yourself STUPID.              I have always been correct about this and no one       person could ever show otherwise because their       own basis of correct was incorrect: mere consensus       of fallible human opinion.       --       Copyright 2025 Olcott |
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