On 21/08/2025 04:14, olcott wrote:

On 8/20/2025 9:53 PM, dbush wrote:

On 8/20/2025 10:47 PM, olcott wrote:

<snip - do you really need to quote almost 200 lines to add one
sentence? Don't they have a word for "considerate" where you come
from?>

Every mere representation of a thing leaves out
most of the details.

False.  By definition, the representation contains all
necessary details about the object being represented.

Turing machine descriptions by

What exactly is it about the word "human"
that tells you the details of brain surgery methods?

"human" describes a creature bright enough to look things up when
more detailed representations are required.

"Turing machine descriptions", though, really do tell a UTM
everything they need to know about specific Turing machines.

And when you compile Halt7.c into an executable image, that
representation tells you everything you need to know about the DD
function, so you have no excuse not to be able to analyse it in
its entirety.

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