Inverse Turing - Modelling Human Brain with Universal Computer
Turing showed that all computer programs could be transformed to run on a very simple 'Universal Computer'. One of the big questions this transformation allows is: Will the program Halt? [The Halting Problem] This, in the guise of a program to calculate the result, was used to prove some problems are not computable. Turing also devised a unrelated idea - the Turing Test - that was at the heart of Artifiical Intelligence (AI) research for many years: If you can't see or hear what/whom you're conversing with, can you tell the difference between a real Human and a computer program? Turning the 'Turing Test' around: Is the Human brain built from computing elements? This isn't quite "Is it a computer?", there are two elements the structure and the componentry from which it's built. If the Human brain is a computing device, and if its organisation and 'programming' can be discovered, then it can represented on an electronic computer. This is...