all code possible to run on a computer already exists. It's some permutation of all the bits of available memory. It's in there somewhere
This seems either mathematically impossible or vacuous, depending on what you mean ...
This seems either mathematically impossible or vacuous, depending on what you mean ...
It's the same sentiment as "the typing itself is not the issue, it's the order of the button presses that's difficult."
Of course, by Rice's theorem, all interesting questions are undecidable anyway...
It's a way of thinking, not some deep metaphysical mystery. Unless it is actually a deep metaphysical mystery, but I'd rather not go there.