The inference from 'certain problems appear inherently sequential' to 'NC ≠ P' commits the same epistemic error Lakatos identified in naive falsificationism: apparent resistance to a method does not establish principled impossibility.
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Something that is impossible not just in practice, but for deep, fundamental reasons—not just because we haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Sequential(as used in describing problem-solving processes)
Happening in a specific order, one after another, where each step depends on completing the previous one.
epistemic error(as used in epistemology)
A mistake in knowledge or understanding—believing something false about what we can know or how we know it.
inference(Nyāya epistemology)
A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known