oh dear. I don't think they're equivalent, only that it was a useful metaphor once upon a time. nothing to get upset about.
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I don't intend or even want to "convert" you to my opinion or ideas, but if you are curious about what I think or some historical detail...
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I am more than happy to share what I know or some source.
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how computer is operationalized is my main interest now.
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Oh, that's easy it's anything that is mathematically shown to be computationally the same as a Turing machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine …
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bearing in mind that Turing defined Turing machine based on what women's brains could do in Bletchley park.
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So the definition of computer is: anything a brain can compute and he did defined it formally using maths. Many other computational systems
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are subsets of what a Universal Turing Machine can do. But anything a Turing machine can do, a brain can do, by definition.
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