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RE: The Pinocchio Paradox and Possibility, Objectivity and Truth
Try writing code:
PinocchioNose = notGrown
If PinocchioNose == notGrown PinocchioNose = Grown
If PinocchioNose == Grown PinocchioNose = notGrown
Well, I'm not exactly the best programmer, but perhaps someone can improve upon this, to make it more accurate. Either way, the paradox can be seen to come true: It'll inspire an infinite loop, crashing the entire computer if left to run.
Yep, I guess you just need to put this in a loop though. But yeah, this would be an infinite loop. That's why I'm saying that computing this accurately might actually be impossible for an objected of limited size to have the computing power to resolve such question reliably without some "manually written in" escape for such situations. In this case, it will come up with a result, but this result might not actually be "true" or the proper reaction to the statement, just some default option to protect it from infinite regressions.
We'd have to ask the blue fairy.
lol! Good one! :D