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    A Hypercomputation in Brouwer's Constructivism

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    In contrast to other constructivist schools, for Brouwer, the notion of "constructive object" is not restricted to be presented as `words' in some finite alphabet of symbols, and choice sequences which are non-predetermined and unfinished objects are legitimate constructive objects. In this way, Brouwer's constructivism goes beyond Turing computability. Further, in 1999, the term hypercomputation was introduced by J. Copeland. Hypercomputation refers to models of computation which go beyond Church-Turing thesis. In this paper, we propose a hypercomputation called persistently evolutionary Turing machines based on Brouwer's notion of being constructive.Comment: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to crucial errors in theorems 4.6 and 5.2 and definition 4.

    On Completeness of Cost Metrics and Meta-Search Algorithms in \$-Calculus

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    In the paper we define three new complexity classes for Turing Machine undecidable problems inspired by the famous Cook/Levin's NP-complete complexity class for intractable problems. These are U-complete (Universal complete), D-complete (Diagonalization complete) and H-complete (Hypercomputation complete) classes. We started the population process of these new classes. We justify that some super-Turing models of computation, i.e., models going beyond Turing machines, are tremendously expressive and they allow to accept arbitrary languages over a given alphabet including those undecidable ones. We prove also that one of such super-Turing models of computation -- the \$-Calculus, designed as a tool for automatic problem solving and automatic programming, has also such tremendous expressiveness. We investigate also completeness of cost metrics and meta-search algorithms in \$-calculus

    Compact Adaptively Secure ABE from k-Lin: Beyond NC1 and towards NL

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    We present a new general framework for constructing compact and adaptively secure attribute-based encryption (ABE) schemes from kk-Lin in asymmetric bilinear pairing groups. Previously, the only construction [Kowalczyk and Wee, Eurocrypt \u2719] that simultaneously achieves compactness and adaptive security from static assumptions supports policies represented by Boolean formulae. Our framework enables supporting more expressive policies represented by arithmetic branching programs. Our framework extends to ABE for policies represented by uniform models of computation such as Turing machines. Such policies enjoy the feature of being applicable to attributes of arbitrary lengths. We obtain the first compact adaptively secure ABE for deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata (DFA and NFA) from kk-Lin, previously unknown from any static assumptions. Beyond finite automata, we obtain the first ABE for large classes of uniform computation, captured by deterministic and non-deterministic logspace Turing machines (the complexity classes L\mathsf{L} and NL\mathsf{NL}) based on kk-Lin. Our ABE scheme has compact secret keys of size linear in the description size of the Turing machine MM. The ciphertext size grows linearly in the input length, but also linearly in the time complexity, and exponentially in the space complexity. Irrespective of compactness, we stress that our scheme is the first that supports large classes of Turing machines based solely on standard assumptions. In comparison, previous ABE for general Turing machines all rely on strong primitives related to indistinguishability obfuscation

    On the possible Computational Power of the Human Mind

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    The aim of this paper is to address the question: Can an artificial neural network (ANN) model be used as a possible characterization of the power of the human mind? We will discuss what might be the relationship between such a model and its natural counterpart. A possible characterization of the different power capabilities of the mind is suggested in terms of the information contained (in its computational complexity) or achievable by it. Such characterization takes advantage of recent results based on natural neural networks (NNN) and the computational power of arbitrary artificial neural networks (ANN). The possible acceptance of neural networks as the model of the human mind's operation makes the aforementioned quite relevant.Comment: Complexity, Science and Society Conference, 2005, University of Liverpool, UK. 23 page
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