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Mechanism

Turing machine

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an imagined tape-reading machine that pins down what "computable" means

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell issearch × L0. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

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Unlocks: Computability

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

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Where it comes from

Every connection

All 1 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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