Don Mikulecky wrote:
>
> Don Mikulecky replies:
> Help me I'm confused?  I am sorry if I left off the word "finite" from the
> definition. Clearly I am working with Arbib's definition of a finite Automata.
>  It
> doesn't work for the case you asked about.  That has to be dealt with in
 another
> way.  The issue we seem to be dancing around is realizability, not anything
 like
> complexity.  Maybe I'm missing something?
> Don
>
Don:
Excuse this dumb question.  But doesn't the introduction of a continuous
range of possible states simply change this into a fuzzy logic version
of your machine?  From what little I know of these operations, we are
still dealing with a deterministic behavior pattern.  According to the
fuzzy logic guys I know, whether we exclude the middle of a machine's
choices or not does not change the fundamentals any more than whether it
has parallel operations or not.
We can and do even simulate fuzzy logic on our PC's.   I have several
fuzzy logic programs that can do some interesting smart things.  So I
think your parallel processing fuzzy logic definition may still be a
simple machine.
Norm McPhail
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