sam wrote:
> Mel:
> Wow that book brings back memories. I scanned my copy to review the
> subject covered, and came to the conclusion that mind reading
> algorithms are the answer.
>
I gathered from somewhere (but not the index to Andrew
Hodges' biography) that Turing was toying with an idea for
"oracles", where a computation would be allowed to call out
sometimes to a non-computational process to obtain some
required result. Used maybe by interactive debugging programs.
Cheers, Mel.
> Mel Wilson wrote:
[ ... ]
>>Douglas Hofstadter's _Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid_.
[ ... ]
>> "Contracrostipunctus".
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