Turing Machines as Conscious Computing Machines

We uncover certain universal features of Turing machines (TM) as operating in a perpetually changing environment which can have sudden and highly random influence on TMs themselves. TM adapts and assimilates the changed environment and performs its computational functioning in new conditions. We show that this transcends essentially Turing computability relative to a ground model of ZFC. We distil the formal counterparts responsible for the adaptation and assimilation of TM and propose they may underlie the conscious behaviour of general systems including living creatures. However, in this last case more work leading to the layer’s structure of TMs is needed. We also make an attempt toward social TMs by finding the way how TMs can group and cooperate.