Does Church-Turing say that? When Turing talked of 'mechanical', didn't he mean something more like 'without thought or insight'?
For a start, surely there are machines we can build that we cannot accurately simulate. A certain radioactivity-based random number generator springs to mind. If you could accurately simulate it, it wouldn't be random...
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Date: 2002-12-11 06:34 am (UTC)For a start, surely there are machines we can build that we cannot accurately simulate. A certain radioactivity-based random number generator springs to mind. If you could accurately simulate it, it wouldn't be random...