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> Everything that you do with your brain and paper can be duplicated on a computer.

Can you stop pretending I'm talking about things that are computable when talking about things that don't terminate? When someone says that computation is only defined for the computable numbers responding with the claim that they don't understand "that finite sized representations of computable real numbers exist" is honestly either stupid or malicious.



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