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The Universal Constructor with David Deutsch
Fallible Animals
Is There a Universal Constructor?
I have been struggling to complete a paper on the universal constructor from within the constructor theory. And I think I have a proof, but it is rather cumbersome and clunky,. So as he say, I've been struggling with trying to complete that paper for some time now. But I have done enough to convince myself that it is a theorem of constructor theory that the universal constructor exists. If there is something that you can't program a machine to build, then that really means that there's something that can't be built.
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