On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 12:57:00 PM UTC-6, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > 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 >
What about the interviews of people over 100 who say they've never had a cold or the flu? And where are these hyper-Turing processes occurring? - pt -- 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.
