On 08/10/2007, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "William Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Laptops aren't TMs. > > Please read the wiki entry to see that my laptop isn't a TM. > > But your laptop can certainly implement/simulate a Turing Machine (which was > the obvious point of the post(s) that you replied to).
But in that case my analogy holds. Both GoL and my laptop can implement a TM, neither *are* TMs. Both are computationally universal. Richard Loosemore's argument in the post I was replying to was based on saying my laptop was *already* a TM not, "can simulate a TM." He was trying to intimate some difference between the relation of my laptop to a TM and the relation between GoL and a TM. Which was incorrect. > Seriously, people, can't we lose all these spurious arguments? We have > enough problems communicating without deliberate stupidity. I am not being deliberately stupid, simply refuting his sloppy claim that a laptop is a TM in a way that the GoL isn't a TM. Will Pearson ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=51213184-8328c1
