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Akin's determinism paradox involves a physical system that predicts its own behavior, and then “spitefully” defies it. Here this paradox is reformulated in purely computational language, in terms of virtual machines. The paradox is related to the theory of self-reproducing automata; and a mathematical conjecture is given which, if verified, would resolve the paradox.
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Goertzel, B. Some thoughts on Akin's spiteful computer. Mind Mach 4, 75–80 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00974205
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