On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 6:25 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 7:04 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >> Sometimes on some problems the human brain could be considered as
>>> being Turing Complete, otherwise we would never be able to do anything that
>>> was intelligent.
>>
>>
>> *> ??? How on Earth do you reach that conclusion.*
>>
>
> I reached that conclusion because I know that anything that can process
> data, and the human brain can process data, can be emulated by a Turing
> Machine. And a Turing Machine is Turing Complete.
>


Perhaps you mean the brain is "Turing emulable" i.e. computable here,
rather than "Turing complete" (which is having the capacity emulate any
other Turing machine).

Jason


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