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> I'm not sure this follows. It doesn't halt because the "program" reaches an end, it's halts because the hardware fails. Ok, but the intelligent entity in que
by consilient 3y ago
> I'm not sure this follows. It doesn't halt because the "program" reaches an end, it's halts because the hardware fails.
Ok, but the intelligent entity in question isn't the program, it's the program-running-on-the-hardware. A mere description of your brain is totally inert.
- MostlyStable 3y ago_Every_ program is running on hardware. And as I pointed out _all_ hardware has some definite EOL, even if it's just the end of the rest of the universe. So thinking of it this way disproves the entire concept of Type B and Type C programs.