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> That means computers can theoretically compute anything that's possible to compute given enough time and memory, which includes anything a human could figure out.

Whoa, that's quite a leap there. Not sure where we (as society) are with our understanding of intuition, but I doubt a million monkeys would recognize that the falling of an apple is caused by the same agent as the orbit of planets.



I think you misunderstood. I'm not making any claim there. I'm just defining what Turing-complete means for those who don't already know.




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