system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I don't understand: "Explain why a computer cannot solve a problem for which there is no solution outside the computer"

I've been trying this phrase:  Explain why a computer cannot solve a problem for which there is no solution outside the computer. It's an assignment by my prof, but I can't even begin to understand it. Does "outside the computer" mean that if humans for example (who are outside of a computer) doesn't have a solution, then the computer wouldn't be able to have a solution? Does it mean that a computer needs to have all the tools and processes available to it in order to solve the problem at hand?

 I see on YouTube that there situations in which a computer cannot give an answer about whether a program will have a stopping point or if it will keep going in an infinite loop..Is that what this question is asking? Someone please give me some insight.
gpt
I would interpret it in one of two ways: Either there is no solution, as in there has not been a way discovered (An algorithm) to figure it out. In that case, a computer can also not figure it out, as it requires humans to write algorithms to solve the specific problem. 
The second case is how you interpret it: There are some problems that are just not computable. As an example the famous Halting problem. Read up on that. Those are problems for which we humans have no algorithm, as it is literally mathematically impossible for one to exist.

These would be the two ways i interpret it.