On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 8:59:42 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 5:54:46 AM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> My point is that in physics what might be called a halting condition is >> an attractor point or limit cycle. Equilibrium is the terminal point in the >> evolution of some system, say thinking according to Landauer's original >> paper on thermodynamics and information. The quantum field theory of black >> holes has no equilibrium condition. Now if the black hole runs away with >> Hawking radiation it will “explode” in a burst of gamma rays and other >> quanta. A Turing machine that does not halt can also be said to burn itself >> out, and if anyone has programmed assembler there were loops you could put >> a machine into that might do damage. >> >> Sorry for being slow on this. I forgot to get flu shots this year and I >> have been hit with a real doozy of a flu. Since Sunday night until >> yesterday I was horribly ill, and only now am beginning to feel normal. Get >> the shots, you really do not want this flu! >> >> LC >> > > I used to think that there *could be* true hypercomputation (what is > called super-Turing machines) in nature, but now I think that there is no > such thing (but anything remains possible, of course). > > *But the idea of substrate-independent Turing machines is incomplete.* > > I shouldn't say (if will jinx me!) but I've never gotten a flu shot and I > haven't gotten the flu in over 40 years. > > But I hope the flu program doesn't start running in / affect my substrate! > > - pt >
I hate to pop your bubble here, but a few years ago at a New Year's party a person who had cancer go into remission made this statement that she never got colds or flus. A doctor I know was there and responded with how not getting these sicknesses is a risk factor for cancer! The woman died a last summer with the return of her non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Hyper-Turing computations or results are not accessible to local observers. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
