FLAIOct 16, 2021

What can we learn from universal Turing machines?

arXiv:2110.08511v1
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This work addresses theoretical connections between computation and biology, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing Turing machine concepts without introducing new methods or data.

The authors constructed a pedagogical universal Turing machine to explore comparisons with biological phenomena based on its encoding and operation.

In the present paper, we construct what we call a pedagogical universal Turing machine. We try to understand which comparisons with biological phenomena can be deduced from its encoding and from its working.

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