Re: HHH(DD) --- COMPUTE ACTUAL MAPPING FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT --- Using Finite String Transformations

On 4/17/2025 2:19 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/17/2025 6:49 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/16/2025 1:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

Mr Flibble <flibble@red-dwarf.jmc.corp> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:29:18 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:

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All of logic, reasoning and computation boils down to finite string
transformations on inputs deriving outputs.

 

That's a big assertion, one you have not proved.  It is one you can't
prove, even were it true, since you don't understand the concept of
proof.

 

When a categorically exhaustive search is made it is self-evident that
all computation, logic, and human reasoning has as its barest possible
essence transforming input finite strings into outputs via finite
string transformations.

 It is not at all self-evident.

It is self-evident that there are no exceptions to the rule
the all truth that is entirely anchored in fully formalized
semantics an be expressed as finite string transformations
from input finite strings.

 Not all advances in knowledge result from
"categorically exhaustive search", far from it.  It is far from clear
what you mean by "transforming" in that paragraph.  It's not even clear
what you mean by "input finite strings".
 

All logic, computation, and human reasoning is at its essence
finite string transformation rules applied to finite strings.
Phonemes are isomorphic to finite strings.

I don't think your model of knowledge as "transformation of strings" is a
good one.  Human cognition is a highly parallel thing, combining many
simultaneous stimuli into some more or less coherent whole.  From that
arises intuition and initiatve, for example, both of which are essential
to the advance of knowledge, yet don't seem to be much connected to
"strings".
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