- philosophy, a
supertask is a
countably infinite sequence of
operations that
occur sequentially within a
finite interval of time.
Supertasks are
called hypertasks...
- of Thomson's
objectives in his
original 1954
paper is to
differentiate supertasks from
their series analogies. He
writes of the lamp and Grandi's series...
- and
Vincent C. Müller (2011). "On the
possibilities of
hypercomputing supertasks".
Minds and Machines. 21 (1): 83–96. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.225.3696. doi:10...
- of his life), it can
never be finished. Such
tasks are
referred to as "
supertasks". In his
short story "Magias
parciales del Quijote" (“Partial
Magic of...
-
within a
given time, to
which he gave the name
supertasks. To
disprove the
possibility of
supertasks, he
introduced Thomson's lamp, a
thought experiment...
-
University Press. Earman, J. and Norton, J., 1993, ‘Forever is a Day:
Supertasks in
Pitowsky and Malament-Hogarth Spacetimes’,
Philosophy of Science, 5...
- the
scale of the
drama as a
whole and is called, for that reason, a "
supertask" (or "superobjective"). A
performance consists of the
inner aspects of...
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