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Minds and automata have a finite number of states

At any given time the mind can only possess a finite number of states—as if it possessed an infinite number of states, some would be arbitrarily close and become confused. Thus, the human mind doesn't differ essentially from a finite automaton.

Alan Turing, 1936.
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