On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
* > It's a moot point about whether a human can be considered a > universal Turing machine* *I don't think it's a moot point! If a Universal Turing Machine can emulate a human being (and I see no reason why it could not) then in my humble opinion that's just about the most interesting and important fact about existence imaginable. At least imaginable by me. * *> a human's finite lifetime is a problem* I don't see why. Any Turing Machine that has stopped (a.k.a. successfully finished its calculation) has only used a FINITE amount of tape. And the same thing could be said about any Turing Machine that is still working on its problem. > > *there may well be limits to the amount of computation physically > possible in the universe, depending on the universe's geometry* > Irrelevant. If true then that fact would affect a human being just as much as it would affect a Turing Machine. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> tio -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2rJ8uf0iK%3DpLO8xSCurjDEVO-TXeeiR7nWJWur6Rh88w%40mail.gmail.com.
