From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Dec 12 1996 - 18:10:02 MST
At 01:42 PM 12/12/96 -0600, jake costello wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a formal result or not, but it seems like
>any continuous system can be simulated to arbitrary accuracy by a Turing
>machine [snip]
Besides, surely in a quantised universe there are, at bottom, *no*
`continuous' systems? Of course non-locality and re-entrant Hofstadterian
Tangled Strange Loops might make any interesting granular system effectively
intractable (prior to Tipler's deity coming on line).
Damien Broderick
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