Notes

Chapter 6: Starting from Randomness

Section 7: The Notion of Attractors


Attractors in Turing machines

In theoretical studies Turing machines are often set up so that if their initial conditions follow a particular formal grammar (see page 938) then they evolve to "accept" states—which can be thought of as being somewhat like attractors.



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From Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science [citation]