Quote: while the environment may behave mathematically, the machine state behaves operationally; state transformations are essentially irreversible

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This is that while the environment [of names] behaves in a typically "mathematical" way … the machine states .sigma. which includes the contents … a command is essentially irreversible and it is … impossible to have more than one version of …   Google-1   Google-2

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