tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post847041979094401629..comments2024-03-18T17:28:44.693-07:00Comments on Rondam Ramblings: Are you a Turing Machine?Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-2049106218792542662019-01-26T22:36:22.090-08:002019-01-26T22:36:22.090-08:00[Edited to fix a small but significant typo]
>...[Edited to fix a small but significant typo]<br /><br />> Quickly: name 5 computer science professors. <br /><br />Knuth, McCarthy, Aho, Hopcroft, and Ullman.<br /><br />(Those last three are cheating a little so I'll throw in Lamport and Kernigan. And Thompson and Richie and Aaronson and Berners-Lee and Diffie and Hellman and ...)<br /><br />Akl just isn't in that league, which he Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752242624438232184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-30710872723723029532019-01-26T01:48:32.558-08:002019-01-26T01:48:32.558-08:00Leviathan Part 3
It wasn't highly emphasized ...<b>Leviathan Part 3</b><br /><br />It wasn't highly emphasized at the beginning, but there is a recent research result that is said to discover a problem that only a quantum computer can solve -- and a classical computer cannot. This would appear to falsify the Church-Turing thesis (as a TM is classical). <br /><br />Article in Quanta magazine:<br /><a href="https://goo.gl/jC9hBm" rel="Publiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-40567147226547197672019-01-26T01:47:03.970-08:002019-01-26T01:47:03.970-08:00Leviathan Part 2
Now for the big guns:
Is the bra...<b>Leviathan Part 2</b><br /><br />Now for the big guns:<br /><a href="https://goo.gl/FV46uv" rel="nofollow">Is the brain a digital Computer? John Searle</a><br /><br />Searle distinguishes between 3 questions:<br />1. Is the brain a digital computer? [focus of this work]<br />2. Is the mind a computer program? <br />3. Can the operations of the brain be simulated on a digital computer? <br /><brPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5592542.post-57666355111579164502019-01-26T01:46:20.805-08:002019-01-26T01:46:20.805-08:00Leviathan Part 1
I think your essay started out w...<b>Leviathan Part 1</b><br /><br />I think your essay started out well, but it seems like you got tired towards the end and wrapped it up quite quickly!<br /><br /><i>> And yet you have almost certainly never heard of Selim G. Akl.</i><br /><br />Quickly: name 5 computer science professors. <br /><br />You might check out <a href="http://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/akl/" rel="nofollow">Dr. AklPubliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00647613579979908182noreply@blogger.com