On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2rJ8uf0iK%3DpLO8xSCurjDEVO-TXeeiR7nWJWur6Rh88w%40mail.gmail.com.
