wnoise comments on Three consistent positions for computationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 16 April 2011 09:12:25PM 0 points [-]

That is false, since we can build Universal Turing Machines (up to a certain finite memory) out of non-protoplasm, and a UTM can compute anything.

You have a proof of the Church-Turing thesis? You should write it up and become famous in the CS community!

Comment author: Peterdjones 18 April 2011 07:49:00PM * -1 points [-]

The other guy needs a disproof of the CTT...an effective procedure that can only be computed in protoplasm.

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