Re:When does a physical system compute?
by im3w1l on Sunday May 04, 2014 @04:32PM
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It is up to the person claiming that the system can be interpreted as a Turing machine.
"If we view these parts of the beach as the tape, and all crabs being in a state described by these rules as corresponds to halting, then this crab population can be seen as a Turing machine!"
"If we view these parts of the beach as the tape, and all crabs being in a state described by these rules as corresponds to halting, then this crab population can be seen as a Turing machine!"