Re: Can you learn computer science from a school?

Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2007-05-24, in comp.lang.lisp, Bob Felts wrote:
Well, yes. It wasn't the form of the machine that is of interest, but
what the machine can do.

What do you take "humans are Turing machines" to mean, then, if not the
trivially false claim?

I think it's generally used as shorthand for Newell and Simon's
physical symbol system hypothesis, but that may just be my
interpretation.
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