Re: Turing Machines Have no Real Time Clock (Was The Game of Life)

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 15:19:34 -0700 (PDT)

> GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> > Turing Machines have no real time clock and no
> > interrupt. If we assume the comp hypothesis
> > (purely based on Turing machines) and the
anthropic
> > principle, then the flow of consciousness can only
> > be constrained by the logical nature of the links
> > pernitting transitions from one observer moment
> > to the next. Time therefore is an illusion derived
> > from such a logical flow.

    I just noticed this claim that TMs are not
clocked, and as far as I could tell it is self
evidently false, so I don't see how someone could make
it. The very definition of a TM involves actions of
the head at each clock step.

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Received on Sun May 21 2000 - 15:21:32 PDT

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