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by skolskoly 993 days ago
>One could also include the computer's hard drive as addressable memory, in which case it has even more states when viewed as a finite state machine.

If you are creative enough, you can consider the entire physical universe to be memory of your state machine. Just add some sensors. Then it doesn't really seem so controversial to call it unbounded anymore right? Perspective, perspective.