Re:Is Flex/Actionscript a real programming language? Can it ...
by juwo on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:22PM
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to clarify:
A Turing machine can simulate a deterministic finite automaton and a non-deterministic finite automaton.
All systems are arguably either of these two. Perhaps that's why we can simulate weather, and lots of other things.
Unless you look at human consciousness - Nobelist Roger Penrose has a theory that the mind is not a computer. That it has quantum states. (his book: The Emperor's New Mind - I didnt finish it - long and hard).
A Turing machine can simulate a deterministic finite automaton and a non-deterministic finite automaton.
All systems are arguably either of these two. Perhaps that's why we can simulate weather, and lots of other things.
Unless you look at human consciousness - Nobelist Roger Penrose has a theory that the mind is not a computer. That it has quantum states. (his book: The Emperor's New Mind - I didnt finish it - long and hard).