On 1/27/2011 10:08 PM, Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Brent Meeker<meeke...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
But if the
emulation attempts to be local then it must include inherent randomness -
which I think is not Turing computable.
The Turing machine could draw the required randomness from a tape of
random bits, couldn't it?
The question might then be asked:
"Where did the tape of random bits come from?"
To which I guess a response of sorts might be:
"Well, where did the Turing machine come from? Probably from there."
If you can have unexplained order, then you can have unexplained
randomness, can't you?
Sure, but then you've gone beyond Turing emulation. A tape providing
the random numbers would have to be a realized (not just potential)
infinity.
Brent
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