Is the human mind a Turing machine?

DOI10.1007/BF00413695MaRDI QIDQ1293033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. Appert, David A. King

Publication date 9 August 1999

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00413695

zbMATH Keywords

actual infinitealgorithmicityCantor's second principle of generationhuman mindmechanismnoncomputable phenomenapotential infiniteTuring machine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Turing machines and related notions (03D10) Artificial intelligence (68T99)

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