On 28 December 2013 16:44, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> "The first, second, 10th, 1,000,000th, and 10^100th, and 10^100^100th
> state of the UD's execution are mathematical facts ..." Umm, how? Godel
> and Matiyasevich would disagree! If there does not exist a program that can
> evaluate whether or not a UD substring is a faithful representation of a
> "true theorem", then how is it "a fact"?
>
> That depends on whether the UD is deterministic or not. If it is, then,
its Nth state is a fact. (It doesn't need to be run or evaluated, and the
Nth state may be a fact that nobody knows, like the googolth digit of pi,
assuming no one's worked that out.)

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