Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Le 25-avr.-06, à 17:37, Tom Caylor a écrit :
>
> >
> > In fact, "closed system" and "meta element" seem to be contradictory.
>
> Not necessarily. It could depend of what you mean exactly by "closed".
> Closure for the diagonalization procedure is the key. Diagonalization
>
I notice that "erasure of information" on a goto instruction occurs
only for goto instructions which send the Turing machine to an
instruction already executed. Thus the self-reference is a reference
to the *past* self of the Turing machine, which in a sense is the only
self the Turing machine kn
Tom: one excerpt I try to address:
"Closed system (Principia Cybernetica): An isolated
system having no
interaction with an environment. A system whose
behavior is entirely
explainable from within, a system without input..."
(I skip the rest, including the mathematical closure
as irrelevant for
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