from Hacker News

I always thought of a turing machine as a model of a body and it always makes me depressed to think of myself as just a body

but recently I come up with this idea to think of a turing machine as a model of a mind, I still not convinced that I am not just a body because I've seen many bodies doing extra ordinary things but my mind is very boring and it can't do anything interesting

but a Turing mind is able to do extra ordinary things

the definition of a Turing mind is the same as a [Turing machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#Formal_definition) with following differences

* tape is time * symbols are videos ( your visual and auditory field, in the future we can have video formats that can play smell, taste and touch ) * state is your working memory * transition function is your [free] will ( transition function could be mutable )

some philosophers have argued that we're just a body and mind is an illusion but in this view we're just a mind and body is an illusion.

a Turing mind is capable of doing all of sci-fi stuff we've seen in movies

* we need a computer scientist to tell us that if a mutable transition function could make a difference * and a physicist to come up with a physical model of this mathematical model

let me know what you think