New Draft: Are Minds Computable?

This essay explores the limits of Turing machines concerning the modeling of minds and suggests alternatives to go beyond those limits.

Gershenson, C. (2011). Are Minds Computable? C3 Tech. Report 2011.08. http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3002

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