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by heavenlyblue 1256 days ago
Just a note, this doesn't seem to create an isomorphism between _actively_playing_ with randomised figures, tetris. It just explains how one could create a turing machine based on controlled positioning of the figures. So essentially this is boring.
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Agreed...if you have to introduce an "agent" to make it complete, is it Tetris that's complete or Tetris + an agent?
Here is a list of Surprising Turing-complete things:

https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

Wang tiles are on the list. Are they Turing-complete by themselves? Or do they become Turing-complete only when an agent attempts to arrange them?