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To: tortoise
So Southack is essentially correct on this point, and parallelism is not an escape hatch from standard computational systems analysis.

OK, but the point remains that DNA is a tape that is read but not written (here's I'm excluding genetic recombination and similar phenomena, which are not essential processes for all living organisms). As I understand it, the Turing machine doesn't have to write to a tape, but a machine that doesn't write isn't really a computing machine.

536 posted on 02/18/2003 11:21:27 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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538 posted on 02/18/2003 11:28:36 AM PST by f.Christian ( + God **IS** Truth -- love ** SCIENCE** // peace - certainty // eternal security +)
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