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It is not an intractable problem as you believe it is. E.g., make the machine print out pixel values for a large screen. The screen can display Chinese charact
by cscurmudgeon 3y ago
It is not an intractable problem as you believe it is.
E.g., make the machine print out pixel values for a large screen. The screen can display Chinese characters in canonical ways.
- rhelz 3y agoThis might sound a bit...but hang with me please... Are the symbols "0" and "1" also definable as pixel values on a large screen? If so, what is a pixel? It it further composed of smaller micro pixels? Or is it pixels all the way down? What I'm saying is that a binary computer cannot write "A" to its memory any more than you can write a green patch to a black-and white monitor's pixel. Sure, there are various work around...you could dither, and make some bit patterns represent red, green, etc...or you could put a picture of an apple onscreen with an arrow pointing to it which said "this is red". And just like a color monitor can display more information than a black and while monitor can, the programs of a Turing machine with more symbols can express more information in smaller strings than a binary turing machine can.