Paul and Patricia Churchland assert that Turing's "results entail something remarkable, namely that a standard digital computer, given only the right program, a large enough memory and sufficient time, can compute any rule-governed input-output function.
Before starting the design, it is important to make sure that there are sufficient I/O port pins, enough internal memory, and sufficient processor speed to do the job.
As previously mentioned, Churchland and Churchland seem to believe, erroneously, that Turing's "results entail... that a standard digital computer, given only the right program, a large enough memory and sufficient time, can... display any systematic pattern of responses to the environment whatsoever" (1990: 26).
(3) Difficulties to communicate (e.g. dementia) belonged to the exclusion criteria so that we only interviewed patients with an adequate memory and sufficient intelligence.
For example, the system defined above would be represented in the "Thue" programming language as *+*::= ** ::= *+**+***+**** Despite its simplicity, the semi-Thue formalism is nevertheless known to be Turing complete., Thus, given infinite memory and sufficient time, any computable function is calculable using such systems.
In each case the simple manipulation of symbols according to explicit rules imparts upon the system the capacity to perform complex computations – in fact, given access to infinite memory and sufficient time, any computable function is calculable (i.e., any function that can be computed, is computable by the given system).
These systems work properly with little memory effect and sufficient blank level.
Reid notes that Locke is aware of some of the consequences of the Memory Theory: if sameness of consciousness or memory is necessary and sufficient for sameness of person, then it is possible for there to be sameness of person without sameness of thinking Being.
On this theory, personal identity consists in memory; sameness of memory is metaphysically necessary and sufficient for sameness of persons.
According to the Memory Theory, personal identity consists in memory; that is, sameness of memory is metaphysically necessary and sufficient for sameness of person.
On this theory, personal identity consists in memory; sameness of episodic memory is metaphysically necessary and sufficient for sameness of persons.
