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Can we debug the Universe?

This was the title of a talk that I gave at the "Future Trends in Hypercomputation" Workshop
back in 2006. A revised version of the original paper has been posted to arXiv.org:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2859

A correction

Bruno Scarpellini was kind enough to point out to me a minor misprint that he discovered. In particular, on page 178 of line 11 froom above, that is, in clause (i) of definition 9.3.4, one has to replace

H(z(\lambda)) dy/d\lambda with H(z(\lambda)) dz/d\lambda,

that is, one has to replace dy with dz.

Some Thoughts on Hypercomputation

Last year I wrote a "paper" on hypercomputation, but since it is not quite ready, I have posted it to the arXives. I believe the "paper" contains some interesting ideas. Anybody willing to have a look at it, can fetch an electronic copy from the following URL:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1494

Impressions from SPUC09

SPUC09 was an event that was organized by Mark Hogarth and Mike Stannett and it was founded by EPSRC . It attracted researchers from Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Phylosophy. Delagates presented interesting ideas and the discussions that followed each presentation were very vivid. Personally, I had the chance to meet some new friends and to discuss with them some interesting ideas. Also, I had the chance to personally meet people with whom I had exchanged many e-mails in the past.

Black hole evaporation

Recently, István Németi pointed out to me that there is an omission
in my book regarding the feasability of his relativistic hypercomputer.
In particular, the following passage

In 1974, Stephen William Hawking [80] proposed that black holes