The Undecidable Frontier: From Turing's Halting Problem to Quantum Verification — E8 Intelligence Research

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-14
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22742697
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Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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The Undecidable Frontier: From Turing's Halting Problem to Quantum Verification — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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The Undecidable Frontier: From Turing's Halting Problem to Quantum Verification — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin
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Abstract

FINDING: The Halting Problem — proven undecidable by Turing (1936) — establishes a fundamental limit on computable knowledge; the 2020 MIP*=RE result extends this to quantum entanglement, showing the halting problem is equivalent to verifying entangled-prover protocols. | MATH: No explicit equations/constants; core logical structure: ∃H such that H(P,I) halts iff P(I) halts → contradiction via diagonalization (self-reference: D(P) = loop if H(P,P) halts, else halt). MIP*=RE: the class of problems verifiable by two entangled provers equals the class of recursively enumerable sets — i.e., the halting problem itself is in MIP*. | CONNECTION: Diagonalization mirrors the golden-ratio-like self-similarity in recursive structures — the fixed-point of the halting function is a self-referential loop, analogous to the infinite regress in φ = 1 + 1/φ. The undecidability boundary acts as a "forbidden ratio" in the space of computable functions — a cut at the 0.618 point of the computational spectr Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
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