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by Kranar 980 days ago
It is categorically false that BB(748) is not computable. On the contrary any particular BB(n) can be computed by some Turing Machine even though there is no Turing Machine that can compute BB(n) for every n.
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So then what's stopping you from running the BB(748) machine, getting the number, then running the ZFC machine and proving ZFC consistent or not?
A proof of existence is not the same as a construction, so the fact that we know that there exists a TM that computes BB(748) does not mean that we know which specific TM does it or how to construct such a TM.