Did I Commit the Church-Turing Fallacy?
Today I received my complimentary copy of The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, edited by Sahotra Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer, Routledge, 2006. I wrote the entry on artificial intelligence. To my astonishment, the entry reads as follows: If Turing’s thesis [i.e., the Church-Turing thesis] is correct, stored-program computers can perform …