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Although the current literature on supertasks concentrates largely on their supposed physical implications (extending the tradition of Zeno’s classical paradoxes of movement), in this study I propose a new model of supertask that explores for the first time some of their information-related consequences and I defend these consequences from a possible criticism.
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Laraudogoitia, J.P. Zeno and flow of information. Synthese 190, 439–447 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-0037-z
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