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Episode 58: Deutsch's "Creative Blocks": A Decade Later

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The Evolution of Computers

Alan Turing came up with the idea that there was a universal computer. He showed through showing that you could always take one and turn it into the other, which is how they do this in computational theory. Now we have spent decades trying to come up with machines that can exceed the Turing machine in terms of computational power. What are the odds that these two machines would be exactly equivalent?

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