
Ep 9 "The Reality of Abstractions" Ch.5 Part 2
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A Universal Chewing Machine Can Compute Anything That's Computable
In terms of computation, a universal chewing machine is universal precisely because it can compute anything that's computable. If a person can do something s in terms of thinking, that a universal cheering machine cannot, this means that thing is a non computable thing. A mathematician's intuition cannot escape this. The intuition itself is a computation of a kind. A mental activity must be, it could be simulated by a computer. And what a conta computer does, like thing else in the universe, is obay, physical laws. Therefore we have the other half of our acquirement. There's nothing a human brain or a mind can possibly compute that a universal computer cannot.
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