Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!NewsServ!sunmanager!uh311ae From: uh311ae@sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges) Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Neural nets are universal computing devices Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 11:07:53 GMT References: <20568.674777123@hplpm.hpl.hp.com> Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 9 Let me see if I get this straight: You are saying that you can prove that a net (operating on rational numbers) with a finite number of neurons and connections is equivalent to a turing machine, including its memory tape ? This is clever. I guess that you reintroduce infiniteness through the backdoor (i.e. the infinite amount of rational numbers) ? Cheers ! Rick@vee.lrz-muenchen.de