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> From: allcolor.domain.name.hidden
> To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> Subject: Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:18:18 +0200
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Le Dimanche 20 Août 2006 05:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
> > Peter Jones writes (quoting SP):
> > > > What about an inputless computer program, running deterministically
> > > > like a recording. Would that count as a program at all,
> > >
> > > It would be a trivial case.
> >
> > Trivial does not mean false.
>
> It seems to me that the set of inputless programs contains the set of programs
> which have inputs. Because a program which have inputs could be written as
> the following inputless program :
>
> |HARDCODED INPUT||CODE|
>
> The resulting program is input less but the "substructure" denominated CODE
> here is not inputless, it takes the hardcoded input.
>
> So in any case I don't see why inputless program should be "trivial case".
>
> Regards,
> Quentin
>
> >
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Received on Sun Aug 20 2006 - 22:09:53 PDT