Multiway Turing Machines — a pre-AI expansion of classical computation theory

A 2021 paper from the Wolfram Physics Institute introduces multiway Turing machines, an extension of the classical Turing model in which the machine can follow multiple computational paths simultaneously at each step. The concept is part of Stephen Wolfram's broader project exploring the foundations of physics and computation. The work predates the current AI boom and offers theoretical grounding for alternative models of computation.

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