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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
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Subject: Re: Parallelism and Conciousness
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Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 18:22:20 EST
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Gawd!! Real-time processing with a Turing machine?!
Pure theory indeed!

Turing machines are models for *abstract* computation.  You get to
write an initial string on the tape(s) and start up the machine: it
does not monitor external inputs changing asynchronously.  You can
define your *own* machine which is just like a Turing machine, except
that it *does* monitor external inputs changing asynchronously (Speaker
machines anyone :-).

Also, if you want to talk *pure theory*, I could just enlarge my input
alphabet on a single input to encode all possible simultaneous values
at multiple inputs.


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