...L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D... ...ngs - why did evolution resort to the false perception of continuum? And how can a machine which is bound to be discrete by virtue of its "naturaln... ...echnical Note about Ambiguity and Vagueness The Basic Dilemma of the Artist Turing Machines and Universes Born Aliens The Manifold of Sense Surpa... ...Existence Being John Malkovich The Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a... ...se methods were so called because they could, in principle, be performed by simple machines (or human-computers or human- calculators, to use Turing... ...lculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and designed the "Turing Machine" a machine which can calculate the values of all the f... ...d using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Machine in the rest of this text) was really an effective or mec... ...eory itself) were not recursive, meaning that they could not be solved by a Turing Machine. No one succeeded to prove that a function must be recu... ...these attempts are reducible or equivalent to TM computable functions). The Turing Machine itself, though abstract, has many "real world" features....

... her voice just one half-note too high—”that dreadful theory of yours that machinery is beau- tiful, and everything else in the world ugly. I thought ... ...cular den, and the general darkness fled into black shadows behind the big machine, from which it presently seemed to creep back over the whole place ... ...cause he would stand kicking—a habit with Holroyd—and did not pry into the machinery and try to learn the ways of it. Certain odd possibilities of the... ...t Camberwell. The two that have been there since the begin- ning are small machines; the larger one was new. The smaller machines made a reasonable no... ...hen creeping back upon the senses again, was this trombone note of the big machine. The floor never felt steady and quiet beneath one’s feet, but quiv... ...H.G . Wells Holroyd delivered a theological lecture on the text of his big machine soon after Azuma-zi came. He had to shout to be heard in the din. “... ...t only his own, but most of Holroyd’s—Azuma-zi would sit and watch the big machine. Now and then the brushes would sparkle and spit blue flashes, at w... ...gines he knew—mere captive devils of the Brit- ish Solomon—had been, but a machine enthroned. Those two smaller dynamos Azuma-zi by force of contrast ... ...entific people tell us that sav- ages give souls to rocks and trees,—and a machine is a thou- sand times more alive than a rock or a tree. And Azuma-z...

...Her aunt knew not how her heart ached after the home she had left, but the machine of the family went its own way and trod her under its wheels.’ This... ...y young lady in the place who can do plain needle- work properly.’ ‘Sewing-machines can work. What the use of fussing about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ sa... ...d,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of order, and as all the machinery ... ...or ladies didn’t know what to do, and couldn’t work without them.’ ‘Sewing-machines are a recent invention,’ said Dolores. ‘Oh! you didn’t think I mea...

...r, as those unenlightened days were ignorant of the happy invention of paper machinery, by which one promise to pay is satisfactorily paid with an ot... ...Peacock 49 tions for carrying the place by storm. He constructed an immense machine on wheels, which, being advanced to the edge of the moat, would l... ...nglish miles and an inch point blank, Come scrive Turpino, che non erra. The machine was completed, and the ensuing morning fixed for the assault. Six... ...t of his guards calling on him to arm, which he did in haste, and beheld the machine in flames, and a furious conflict raging around it. He hurried to... ...ortie on the other, and that they had killed the guards, and set fire to the machine, before the rest of the camp could come to the assistance of thei...

...e, and transferred to the car; and fancy the car, a huge Jug- gernaut of a machine, rolling on four wheels of an an- tique shape, which supported a ba... ...s the imperial crown, covered with violet velvet crape, and the whole vast machine was drawn by horses in superb housings, led by valets in the imperi...

... rest — but I said I would by and by; no hurry yet, and too much government machinery to oil up and set to rights and start a going. We had one tourn... ...ld then have been in office six or seven years, and I believed my system and machinery would be so well developed that I could take a holiday with o... ...st unison, and the sound of it was like to the muffled burr of subterranean machinery. The havoc continued an hour and a half, and unimagin able was... ...ild asleep. Just as we stepped across the threshold the executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry from both the prisoner and the w... ...se in the United States in my time. Concentration of power in a po litical machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machin... ...posing some day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sew ing machine with it. I afterward carried out that scheme, and got five years’... ...nough, for that race and that age. I never saw such an awkward people, with machinery; you see, they were totally unused to it. The miller gun was a ... .... The telegraph, the tele phone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and ele... ...nce and battle axe, and if they couldn’t per suade a person to try a sewing machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed wire fence, o...

...ty’s beginning By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning! I said the small pox has gone out of ... ... Good workmen never quarrel with their tools; I ‘ve got new mythological machinery, And very handsome supernatural scenery. There ‘s only one ... ... In former works, made new, prepared fascines, And all kinds of benevolent machines. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Seven” 176 ‘T is thus the spirit ... ...ith turbans, scimitars, and dirks, And made them charge with bayonet these machines, By way of lesson against actual Turks: And when well prac...

...d in it or not, did their fair share. It was a monotonous life, operating with machine like regularity. One day was very like another. At a certain t...

...eived to be a small home with a large mangle in it, at the handle of which machine stood a very long boy, with a very little head, and an open mouth o... ...cial thing—a clock, a vio- lin, an astronomical telescope, an electrifying machine—they must dismount for ever, unless they receive its equivalent in ... ... ery day take new pains to make them both familiar, will be, I may hope, a machine in such working order as that they can keep it going. I know I need... ...about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly. A humble machine, familiar to the conspirators and called by the expressive name of ... ...with voice and consciousness gone out of him, and life fast going. As this machine was borne out at the T emple gate by four men, the poor little doll... ...- tient manner, with the misery of a disturbed mind, and the monotony of a machine. Equally, when he lay still and star- ing, he would repeat it for h...

...since, other- wise, slackness was apt to supervene, and the working of the machine to grow rusty and feeble; but that, in spite of all, the present oc... ...t up a complete industrial organisation, and the springs of the industrial machine were in vigorous working order, and each had become able to reinfor... ...356 Dead Souls magician, Chichikov’s lawyer imparted driving power to that machine which caught up a man into its mechanism before he could even look ...

...and placed her in a higher sphere. As you have seen the nymph in the opera-machine go up to the clouds at the end of the piece where Mars, Bacchus, Ap...

...t I have been more touched than I can say by your grief. That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the angui...

...urvived. Unfortunately the legs began to refuse their service to this bony machine. During the last five or six months that this weakness had been fel...

...ll home bred, grey, well fed, strong and devoid of blemish. The threshing machine worked in a roofed barn, the forage was kept in a separate shed, an... ...upplied him every day with large bundles of fresh straw from the threshing machine. He used to lie the whole day long on the fragrant straw, with fres... ... as he was himself, when he was thrashing his own corn with a horse driven machine. “Tell them I’ll come – I’ll come at lunch time. I’ve got to go to ... ...se, gave the money to his wife, and went to his neighbour’s. The thrashing machine was humming, and the driver was shouting. The lean horses were goin... ...re gathering great armfuls of corn and handing them to the men to feed the machine. The work was in full swing. In the kitchen garden, which Mitri had... ...an to work vigorously, rak ing the corn together and throwing it into the machine. The work went on without interruption until the din ner hour. The... ....” Martha obeyed. The beggar went away. The man in charge of the thrashing machine got up, said grace, thanked his hosts, and went away to rest. Mitri... ...other slaves, toiling in factories to produce samovars, silver, carriages, machines, and the like for their use. They live among these horrors, seeing...

...s and hampers of cheeses, from which sticky straw stuck out. Near the corn-machines clucking hens passed their necks through the bars of flat cages. T... ...the corn, which, being ground, is made into a powder by means of ingenious machinery, comes out thence under the name of flour, and from there, transp... ...m was that it would cost him nothing. Bovary even undertook to provide the machine for the operation. This generosity was an idea of Emma’ s, and Char... ...ear walking properly . Then Charles, having buck- led his patient into the machine, went home, where Emma, all anxiety, awaited him at the door. She t... ...phopode?” The strephopode was writhing in hideous convulsions, so that the machine in which his leg was enclosed was knocked against the wall enough t... ...d about to burst, and it was covered with ecchymosis, caused by the famous machine. Hippolyte had already complained of suffering from it. No attentio... ...Hippolyte being unable to endure it any longer, they once more removed the machine, and were much surprised at the result they saw. The livid tumefact... ... “Where you like,” said Leon, forcing Emma into the cab. And the lumbering machine set out. It went down the Rue Grand-Pont, crossed the Place des Art... ...perintending three workmen, who panted as they turned the large wheel of a machine for mak- ing seltzer-water. Homais gave them some good advice. He e...

...or would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance which his growth re quire... ...oes off here with eclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent. The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a l... ... and veg etables, for they suffer nothing to be wasted. If others are the machines to provide this provender, they are the machines to read it. They ... ...e bar room, the post office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire engine, at con venient ... ... you God, and so only. Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the uni verse, you carrying on the work. Rather than love, th...

...r came in, everything stopped. He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home. And he was always aware of this fall of silence on h... ...he ceiling, and one could see above, over the fence of the top floor, some machinery; and right away overhead was the glass roof, and all light for th... ... She was an erect little body of forty. In that room were two round spiral machines on the bench under the window. Through the inner doorway was anoth... ...e window. Through the inner doorway was another longer room, with six more machines. A little group of girls, nicely dressed in white aprons, stood ta... ...’t bother.” “But I ought to know how to put needles in.” She ground at her machine all the while steadily. “There are many things you ought to know,” ... ...ought to know,” she re- plied. “Tell me, then, how to stick needles in the machine.” “Oh, the boy, what a nuisance he is! Why, this is how you do it.”... ...yes. He was not crying. Paul stood looking round, waiting. On the weighing machine a truck trundled slowly. Paul saw everything, except his fa- ther l... ...e never realised the male he was. He lighted his bicycle-lamp, bounced the machine on the barn floor to see that the tyres were sound, and but- toned ... .... The roads were greasy, so he had to let it go. He felt a pleasure as the machine plunged over the second, steeper drop in the hill. “Here goes!” he ...

...d, Thomas did not look at him, but gave himself up to be taken home like a machine. ‘In the name of wonder, idleness, and folly!’ said Mr. Gradgrind, ... ...nnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke tr... ...ife at Stone Lodge went monotonously HARD T IMES 50 round like a piece of machinery which discouraged human interference, and because of the prohibit... ...the Fairy Palace over the arches near: little felt amid the jarring of the machinery, and scarcely heard above its crash and rattle. Long before then ... ...op, and to the shameful figure heavy on the bed, but heavier on his heart. Machinery slackened; throbbing feebly like a fainting pulse; stopped. The b... ...APTER XIV—THE GREAT MANUFACTURER TIME WENT ON IN C OKETOWN like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many pow ... ...ss through the mill. Time hustled him into a little noisy and rather dirty machinery, in a by comer, and made him Mem ber of Parliament for Coketown:... ...oubtful whether they were quite justified in chopping people up with their machinery; they were ut terly undone, when it was hinted that perhaps they... ...m as so much Power, and reg’latin ‘em as if they was figures in a soom, or machines: wi’out loves and likens, wi’out memo ries and inclinations, wi’o...

...alyzes, he dissects, he watches “with an eye serene, The very pulse of the machine,” for such it practically is to him, with wheels and cogs and pis- ... ...s upon the apparatus for condensation of the atmospheric air. I found this machine, however, to require considerable alter- ation before it could be a... .... In this rim was screwed the large tube of the condenser, the body of the machine being, of course, within the chamber of gum-elastic. Through this t... ...e circumjacent being drawn by means of a vacuum created in the body of the machine, was thence discharged, in a state of condensation, to mingle with ... ... a great number of the birds, with a view to raising the author himself. A machine is contrived for the purpose, and we have a minute description of i... ...de of wild swans (ganzas) who had strings reaching from their tails to the machine. The main event detailed in the Signor’s narrative depends upon a v... ... lantic crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason’s Flying Machine ! —Arrival at Sullivan’s Island, near Charlestown, S.C., of Mr. Ma... ...fficulty - without any great apparent danger— with thorough control of the machine—and in the inconceiv- ably brief period of seventy-five hours from ... ...ard,” &c. ; and Mr. Henson, the projector of the late unsuccessful flying machine - with two seamen from Woolwich—in all, eight persons. The particu...

...ilable as a private soldier, must be compressed and belted in till he be a machine. As soon as the men had left the vessel we walked over the side of ... ...y down the other. The system, therefore, is that of an ordinary dredg- ing machine only that corn and not mud is taken away, and that the buckets or t... ...han it should be. But hot-air drinking is like dram-drinking. There is the machine within the house capable of supplying any quan- tity, and those who... ...or this lady is well dressed, if fine clothes will make well dressing. The machinery of her hoops is not battered, and altogether she is a person- age... ... the people; that the smallness of the power necessary for carrying on the machine shows how beautifully the machine is orga- nized, and how well it w... ...pany was incor- porated in 1822, and thus Lowell was commenced. The Lowell Machine-shop was incorporated in 1845, and since that no new establishment ... ... the amount of the rise or fall. One would suppose that the most intricate machinery would have been necessary for such an arrangement; but it was all...