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From the perspective of computing things, humans are Turing Machines, because a Turing Machine can compute anything that is computable.


That's like saying from the perspective of arithmetic we're abaci because we can both do sums. Again, whether or not human beings can model a TM is a boring and silly question. The interesting question, and one that remains not just unsolved but stubbornly resistant to progress towards a solution, is whether a TM can model a human. It's far from certain that conscious is computable, and it's getting further with each plate of spaghetti we throw at the teflon wall that is Hard AI.




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