I was just flicking through the counters for the Stanford Encyclopaedia, and I was struck by a couple of things. First, despite this being a fairly high traffic week here at TAR, we still got less traffic than the Nietzche entry gets by just being there. If I didn’t update for three months, I wouldn’t be getting 500-600 hits per day. Secondly, the Turing machine entry, number 19 on last week’s charts, is fairly short by SEP standards. The abstract is longer than the rest of the article. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it means the entry gets to the point in a way that some entries (well, mine at least) arguably don’t. But for something with that much traffic, it may be worthwhile to write more about the connections between Turing machines and philosophy of mind and computation. Sadly, I don’t know enough to write the imagined better entry, but maybe someone reading this does.