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On Turing Machines with Modifications

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After some informal definitions of Turing machines and their applications the importance of this concept for biological information processing will be mentioned. We shall see that Turing machines are very rough models. Therefore we shall try to build into this model “forgetfulness”—one of the phenomena observed in nature.

Some of the results mentioned in this paper are based on research supported by the Bundesminister für Forschung und Technologie (No. NT - 187)

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  1. Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung (III), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Martensstr. 1, Fed. Rep. Germany

    Roland Vollmar

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  1. Institut für Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Tübingen, 74 Tübingen, Köstlinstraße 6, Deutschland

    Michael Conrad , Werner Güttinger  & Mario Dal Cin ,  & 

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Vollmar, R. (1974). On Turing Machines with Modifications. In: Conrad, M., Güttinger, W., Dal Cin, M. (eds) Physics and Mathematics of the Nervous System. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80885-2_22

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