On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: > John: > > > > Regardless of your dislike for the term omniscience versus universality, the > Turing machine > > can compute all computable computations, and this simply by virtue of its > construction. > > > > wrb
John is right - omniscience is a different concept to universality. For the sake of clearer conversation, it is better to keep that in mind, rather than arbitrarily redefining words "Humpty Dumpty" like. Of course, if there is no accepted definition for a concept, it is OK to propose another one. But please restrict it to concepts that are logically sound, and be prepared to drop your own definition if a better one comes along. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
