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Using nonstandard analysis, we will extend the classical Turing machines into the internal Turing machines. The internal Turing machines have the capability to work with infinite ($*$-finite) number of bits while keeping the finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken Loo

We walk through a few proofs of canonicity and normalization, each one with more aspects dissected and re-expressed in category theory, so that readers can compare the difference across proofs. During this process we isolate the different…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Xu Huang

Tangle machines are topologically inspired diagrammatic models. Their novel feature is their natural notion of equivalence. Equivalent tangle machines may differ locally, but globally they are considered to share the same information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Avishy Y. Carmi , Daniel Moskovich

Combining the approaches made in works with Galeotti and Passmann, we define and study a notion of "almost sure" realizability with parameter-free ordinal Turing machines (OTMs). In particular, we show that, in contrast to the classical…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

The Turing Machine has two implicit properties that depend on its underlying notion of computing: the format is fully determinate and computations are information preserving. Distributed representations lack these properties and cannot be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Luis A. Pineda

Let $L$ be a countable language. We characterize, in terms of definable closure, those countable theories $\Sigma$ of $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1, \omega}(L)$ for which there exists an $S_\infty$-invariant probability measure on the collection…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Nathanael Ackerman , Cameron Freer , Rehana Patel

Bayesian reasoning plays a significant role both in human rationality and in machine learning. In this paper, we introduce transfinite modal logic, which combines modal logic with ordinal arithmetic, in order to formalize Bayesian reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Xinyu Wang

Despite significant efforts towards extending the AGM paradigm of belief change beyond finitary logics, the computational aspects of AGM have remained almost untouched. We investigate the computability of AGM contraction on non-finitary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Dominik Klumpp , Jandson S. Ribeiro

Recently we have introduced a new model of infinite computation by extending the operation of ordinary Turing machines into transfinite ordinal time. In this paper we will show that the infinite time Turing machine analogue of Post's…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Andrew Lewis

We give a number of formal proofs of theorems from the field of computable analysis. Many of our results specify executable algorithms that work on infinite inputs by means of operating on finite approximations and are proven correct in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Florian Steinberg , Laurent Thery , Holger Thies

This paper presents the implementation of a self-replicating finite-state machine (FSM) and a self-replicating Turing Machine (TM) using bio-inspired mechanisms. Building on previous work that introduced self-replicating structures capable…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ralph P. Lano

Can free agency be compatible with determinism? Compatibilists argue that the answer is yes, and it has been suggested that the computer science principle of "computational irreducibility" sheds light on this compatibility. It implies that…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Marius Krumm , Markus P. Mueller

Even if Google AI's Sycamore processor is efficient for the particular task it has been designed for it fails to deliver universal computational capacity. Furthermore, even classical devices implementing transverse homoclinic orbits realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Karl Svozil

The paper puts into discussion the concept of universality, in particular for structures not of the power of Turing computability. The question arises if for such structures a universal structure of the same kind exists or not. For that the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-23 Manfred Kudlek

T. D. Kieu has claimed that a quantum computing procedure can solve a classically unsolvable problem. Recent work of W. D. Smith has shown that Kieu's central mathematical claim cannot be sustained. Here, a more general critique is given of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Hodges

Universal memcomputing machines (UMMs) [IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learn. Syst. 26, 2702 (2015)] represent a novel computational model in which memory (time non-locality) accomplishes both tasks of storing and processing of information. UMMs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Yan Ru Pei , Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We investigate the Church-Kalm\'ar-Kreisel-Turing Theses concerning theoretical (necessary) limitations of future computers and of deductive sciences, in view of recent results of classical general relativity theory. We argue that (i) there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabor Etesi , Istvan Nemeti

In this first of two papers, strong limits on the accuracy of physical computation are established. First it is proven that there cannot be a physical computer C to which one can pose any and all computational tasks concerning the physical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 David H. Wolpert

We introduce a non-wellfounded proof system for intuitionistic logic extended with inductive and co-inductive definitions, based on a syntax in which fixpoint formulas are annotated with explicit variables for ordinals. We explore the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sebastian Enqvist

For over a decade, the hypercomputation movement has produced computational models that in theory solve the algorithmically unsolvable, but they are not physically realizable according to currently accepted physical theories. While…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Aran Nayebi