What does Turing’s Theorem have to do with progressive politics? I'm not sure, except that the opponents of liberal minded people everywhere seem to have one thing in common, a rigid ideology that admits no room for alternative perspectives. It makes no difference whether the reactionary forces in question represent fanatical Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or whatever. Wielding one's religion as a club, attacking all those who disagree as heretics, infidels, traitors, and worst of all, liberals, does not depend on in whose God’s name the bludgeoning is being carried out. The following parable applies Turing's Theorem to the Ultimate Question, "Does God Exist?", although the answer won’t satisfy anyone. People of faith, liberal or conservative, will rightly retort that Turing's Theorem applies only to a finite state machine (e.g. a digital computer), providing a theological loophole large enough for even the most inflexible God to slip through. Nonetheless, my parable offers yet one more way to view the eternal debate about eternity. Whatever the Ultimate Answer might be, it cannot be reduced to "Literal Truth" (i.e. an algorithm).
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