Re: computationalism and supervenience

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:41:00 +0200

Le 27-août-06, à 12:43, Russell Standish a écrit :



> I recall reading this paper, and the followup entitled "The Random
> Oracle Hypothesis is False" by Chang et al.


Have you the reference? Do you know if Chang has found a math error, or
a conceptual mishandling? I would be interested to know.




>> From recollection though, the claim was of superior algorithmic
> performance (ie solving NP problems in P time) rather than solving
> uncomputable problems.



I doubt this very much, but I will check and let you know,


Bruno


http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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