Can a finite physical device be Turing-equivalent? - Life Is Computation
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If you believe in the following, I am going to try to change your mind: "Turing machines require unbounded memory so they cannot be physically implemented. Any physical computation device is limited in its memory capacity and, therefore, is equivalent to a finite state machine."
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Can a finite physical device be Turing-equivalent? - Life Is Computation
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finite automata - How useful is Turing completeness? are neural nets turing complete? - Stack Overflow
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Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: Equivalent models of computation