Busy Beavers
Computers are a wonderful invention, capable of a profound variety of actions. But there are limits to what a computer can do, and today I wish to talk about one of them. Specifically, I wish is discuss the Busy Beaver problem.
Must reality be consistent?
08/24/07 | by Randall Landau | Categories: Metaphysics, Musings
Reading this XKCD comic brings to mind something I’ve thought about off and on for a while now. Doing a quick google search brings up nothing on the subject, so here is a small attempt to at least sketch out the domain of a question/answer.
I think that some people don’t accept the (what I believe to be) self evident proposition that reality must be consistent.
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