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The Church-Turing Thesis, Turing Computable Functions, and the Human Mind

First, the Church-Turing Thesis.The Church-Turing Thesis states that, given any effective procedure or method (or algorithm) by which the value of a mathematical function can be obtained, then that same function can also be computed and its value obtained automatically by a Turing machine (see Copeland 1997, “The Thesis and its History”).To be “effective,” the algorithm or procedure must have a finite number of instructions in a finite number of steps, and could in principle be done by a...

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Miguel Nicolelis and Ronald Cicurel on the Human Mind

In the video below, Miguel Nicolelis (a neuroscientist of the US Duke University) and Ronald Cicurel (a mathematician) discuss their book: Cicurel, Ronald and ‎Miguel A. L. Nicolelis. 2015. The Relativistic Brain: How it Works and Why it Cannot Be Simulated by a Turing Machine. Kios Press, Natal, Montreux, Durham, São Paulo. [embedded content]There are too many fascinating points in this discussion to fully describe.But what is notable is their scepticism of the more grandiose aims of the...

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