On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, but in this case the input to P is not (P,y), it is a self reference > to whatever program P is running plus y. >
It's irrelevant, because description of P (or Q) could've been contained in the prefix that said "simulate this on yourself: ", and it could've been handled by the same machinery that in my example was printing "the output is ". The only problem is brackets, so if the description is always [finite prefix with machine specification]+[data parameters], it will work. > I think you would agree that a virtual machine with n bits of memory can > only be implemented on a machine with more than n bits of memory. > If it needs to, it can reserve a finite number of additional bits just for this purpose. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
