billswift comments on Belief in Self-Deception - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 March 2009 03:20PM

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Comment author: billswift 06 March 2009 12:58:54AM 0 points [-]

Not just loosely speaking - the brain IS a Universal Turing Machine. Or at least as much a one as currently exists - the key definition is the universality of computations - the infinite tape is a visualization mechanism.