We may not have a determinate answer to this question. But is there any evidence for or against this question? Or is there any study on it?
Asked By : CareF.
Answered By : babou
"Is a dog an animal?" is different from "Is an animal a dog?".
I read your question as going only in one direction: can a human being be simulated by a Turing machine? It is not about human beings being able to simulate a Turing machine, or "functioning" as one.
Essentially this is an open question, that depends on Chuch-Turing thesis, and on issues in physics regarding the physical limitations to computation that are still open (though some people dispute that, but history shows that some physicists have been known to believe they had nearly all the answers, the rest being expected next Friday). These issues involve for example the nature of time, and the opposition between a continuous and a discrete reality. Democritus (460-370 BCE) still lives.
Some details can be found in the second part of another answer I gave. There is a little bit more to it, but it is a first sketch.
Of course it could be that the answer to the OP's question is positive, even though the more general issue of computability might ultimately show that the Chuch-Turing limit could be overcome (I am not saying it can). But other than AI research, and brain research, that is all we have for now, afaik.
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