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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The philosophy of computation reformulates existing ideas on a
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On 10/29/2024 9:50 AM, Andy Walker wrote:
> On 29/10/2024 13:56, olcott wrote:
>> To the best of my knowledge no one besides me ever came up with the
>> idea of making a simulating halt decider / emulating termination
>> analyzer.
> 
>      The /idea/ is ancient, and certainly dates back at least to the
> 1970s.  For a relatively informal discussion, see paragraph 3 of
> 
>    http://www.cuboid.me.uk/anw/G12FCO/lect18.html
> 

The word "simulate" or "UTM" or "interpret" was not there.
Let me know what keyword to search for I have to prepare
my house for my cancer treatment.

> intended for second-year undergraduates and present on the web from 1996
> [though then as a Nottingham University web page].  I certainly didn't
> invent the idea.  The same page includes some stuff about Busy Beavers.
> You, and perhaps others, may also find some of the surrounding pages
> [linked from that one] interesting, eg the stuff about UTMs and about
> minimal computers.  Again, I am not claiming credit for inventing any
> of this.
> 


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