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| Apr 5, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | Mark S | Thanks for helping me clarify my source of frustration! I've found the physical embodiment of a Turing machine to be off-putting to my 21st century mind's eye, like there's a Platonic ticker-tape machine that must be instantiated as some early 20th century machine to have any chance to talk about computation. Contrast this with set theory - I'm OK with the level of formalism of ZFC, but it never has to be instantiated as something "physical." I'd be OK with alphabet symbols etc. if I didn't immediately have to think of a ticker-tape. But that's not the Turing machine's fault. | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 17:28 | vote | accept | Mark S | ||
| Apr 5, 2019 at 17:03 | history | answered | Joey Eremondi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |