An accept state is merely a final or end state. A Turing machine is a generalization (has greater capabilities) than a standard state machine. A state machine has states and transitions from one state to another, with the "accept state" as the end of the chain. name derives from "acceptable" / "accepting" Petzold's book, The Annotated Turing, does a better (more accessible to lay audiences) job of explaining Turing's 36 page paper than Bernard's. davew On Sat, Jul 2, 2016, at 09:30 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dear Friammers, > > When I came to Santa Fe a decade ago, a recently retired psychology > professor and writer, it was with a great interest in complexity and a > faith that, with enough patience, and diligence I could come to > understand what you were all about. This has proved much more > difficult than I had imagined. So it was, with renewed optimism, that > I picked up Chris Bernard’s TURING’S VISION: THE BIRTH OF COMPUTER > SCIENCE. It looked like the kind of book that I *ought to be* able to > understand. (Note the use of modal language.) But, as so often > happens with such deceptively simple, books-for-the-ordinary-citizen-like- > me, its first few pages contained a few assumptions that seemed so bone- > headedly counter-intuitive that everything I read thereafter was > poisoned. So, I have four questions: > > 1. Has anybody read this book? > 2. Do you understand it? > 3. WTF is an Accept State? > 4. And why is it called an “Accept State?” > > Hope the members of the Friam Mother Church are having good summer. > You should know that you have had more rain in Santa Fe than we have > had here in Massachusetts since I got back. My neighbors have started > tearing up their lawns and laying down pebbles. > > Take care, > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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