Right—I don’t literally mean to imply infinity. I just mean in the way that partial recursive functions can perform arbitrary computations (memory permitting) - or lambda calculus, or cellular automata.
So: a substrate capable of universal computation if it were extended to infinity.
Right—I don’t literally mean to imply infinity. I just mean in the way that partial recursive functions can perform arbitrary computations (memory permitting) - or lambda calculus, or cellular automata.
So: a substrate capable of universal computation if it were extended to infinity.