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### Why do people bring real-life Quantum Computing to the discussion of the Church-Turing thesis?

As an undergraduate with limited understanding of QC and even the C-T thesis, I have problems figuring out why in questions such as Extended Church-Turing Thesis real-life quantum stuff is even given ...
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### Is this a good definition of computability? [closed]

I still haven't found a good definition of computability. All the definitions are either too vague, or they delegate the definition to another loaded term like "anything that uses math to solve a ...
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### How exactly is solving the random circuit sampling problem a computation in the Church-Turing thesis sense? [closed]

Note: This has been cross-posted to Quantum Computing SE. If we assume $\mathsf{BQP} \neq \mathsf{BPP}$, then we can say with reasonable certainty that Google's random sampling experiment falsifies ...
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### Question About Turing Machine Computability [closed]

If p is a Turing machine then L(p) = {x | p(x) = yes}. Let A = {p | p is a Turing machine and L(p) is a finite set}. Is A computable? Justify your answer. So I'm trying to figure out how to solve ...
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### Is true randomness and the physical Church-Turing thesis incompatible?

As follow up to Does the physical Church-Turing thesis imply that all physical constants are computable?, I ask if true randomness (as predicted by QM) and the physical Church-Turing thesis are ...
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### Does the physical Church-Turing thesis imply that all physical constants are computable?

The physical Church Turing thesis is a conjecture that any physically computable algorithm can be computed by a Turing machine. Let us create a machine that, for example, outputs the digits of the ...
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### Is Biological Computation a theme covered by the Theoretical Computer Science?

I want to say computation realized by biological systems themselves. I'm not talking about bio-inspired algorithms, or applications in computation using living systems. This question is more about an ...
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### Question on Turings Dissertation *Systems of Logic based on Ordinals*, Axiomatic Properties [closed]

I have a question on Alan Turing's Dissertation Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals, a scanned copy you can find here, or rewritten in LaTeX here, and also a copy of the published version here (but in ...
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### Can we say that Church encoding is a form of Gödelization?

We see here the following statement about Godelization: Gödel numbering in computer science means more or less "source code" and "data in binary format", so I hope the ...
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### Misunderstanding the Church-Turing thesis?

My understanding of the Church-Turing thesis is the: It puts a limit on what can be computed by any discrete and finite process. Although still a thesis, not a theorem, if it were to be disproven, ...
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### Historic Relationship between Typed Lambda Calculus and Lisp?

I was having a discussion with a friend recently (who is an advocate of strongly typed languages). He made the comment: The inventors of Lambda Calculus always intended it to be typed. Now we can ...
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### mathematical study of the 'Church-Turing thesis'

The Church-Turing thesis postulates that essentially all models of computation -Turing machines, Post systems, lambda-definability etc yield the same class of computable functions. Now we can think of ...
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### The relation of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems to the Church-Turing Thesis

This may be a naive question, but here goes. (Edit -- it is not getting upvotes, but nobody has offered a response either; perhaps the question is more difficult, obscure, or unclear than I thought?) ...
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### Applicability of Church-Turing thesis to interactive models of computation

Paul Wegner and Dina Goldin have for over a decade been publishing papers and books arguing primarily that the Church-Turing thesis is often misrepresented in the CS Theory community and elsewhere. ...