[lit-ideas] Re: The Answering Machine

John, could you clarify whether you mean 'Turing machine' where it says 
'Touring machine'? (This may give me time to come up with an 'answer'.)

Donal
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 From: John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 0:13
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Answering Machine
 

Donal McEvoy wrote:

"And indeed the phone itself is simply a vehicle of communication that  
>itself does not communicate, so it is doubly wrong an
            expression as we do not  
>answer the phone but respond to the person ringing."
Would that mean the same thing for a  "Touring machine?"  Is it an "answering 
machine" as well
that is only a means to respond to the person "ringing" the machine?

Is ANY machine that is programmed by people basically a complicated
    "answering machine"
that allows communication between two human parties, or is a Touring
    machine somehow NOT
an "answering machine" even if it's been programmed by someone in a
    more complicated way than
(but basically similar to) a phone answering machine?

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