Tracy R Reed wrote:
Darren New wrote:
Sounds like a "yes" to me. You are running a general purpose analog
computer, as a brain. It can run programs in the sense that a digital
computer can, or you'd have a really hard time writing programs,
compilers, and figuring out where your bugs are. You would be unable
to simulate a turing machine with pencil and paper. :-)
This implies that analog computers are not subject to the halting
problem doesn't it?
Depends on which analog computer. Most are rather a lot smaller than a
Turing machine. Remember the halting problem only exists for
infinite-storage computers. Anything with a fixed number of states is
"trivial" to check whether it halts.
What I meant was that if you couldn't simulate a computer program in
your brain, you couldn't write, debug, or compile code manually.
Not sure where the halting problem comes in at all, actually.
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