March 17,
2007
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Turing
Machines and human intelligence
(cont.)
•And yet, the human brain is somehow capable of such things as mathematical proofs, and so per Turing must not be representable by a Universal Turing Machine (UTM).
•But, any computing device which is deterministic and can
be completely described by
step-by-step instructions is representable
by a UTM.
•This line of reasoning might lead one to the idea that
the human brain (or human
intelligence) is not deterministic, or
might not be representable by a series of step-by-step instructions.
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