On 4/9/2012 1:12, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> A Turing machine can decompress a representation of an MP3 file into a
>> representation of where the speaker would be at each given moment, but it
>> can't actually play the music.
>
>    I don't understand what that has to do with solving a problem. It sounds
> to me like you are using a fallacy of equivocation.

If the problem is "I want to know what song this is" or "I want to listen to 
some music", then you haven't really solved the problem.

If the problem is "I have a TM program and I want to know what to put on the 
tape of my UTM to run it", you can't solve that with a turing machine. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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