Is the brain a discrete state machine?

Question

Alan Turing has stated that since digital computers are universal, they can imitate any discrete state machines. Does Turing state that the brain is a discrete state machine?

If I am misunderstanding this, can anyone help? thanks

Answer 1

I would propose that even a machine doesn't have to be a discrete state machine. Cognitive operational algorithms, and machine intelligent algorithms, can be creative and inventive, introducing states of mind that it was not previous programmed to result in. The simple algorithm to withdraw data from x, and than enter it into y, leaves the end variable limitless, and non-discrete. This is deducible from Godel's theorem, or many philosophers mention of "infinite variation," in one conceptual form or another.



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Answer 2

Discrete State Machine

Answer 3

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Basically the idea of a discrete state machine is a mechanical computation that has a finite number of states.

Answer 4

"Turing's argument is simply that the brain should also be considered as a discrete state machine."

http://www.turing.org.uk/philosophy/ex8.html