There's been a very weird discussion going on here based on the misconception that TMs are somehow equivalent to Interactive TMs[1]. In the usual theory of TMs

There's been a very weird discussion going on here based on the misconception that TMs are somehow equivalent to Interactive TMs[1]. In the usual theory of TMs there's no idea that there's "input" (e.g. another TM altering the tape) or anything similar. You just give it a starting position and the initial state of the tape and let it go. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_computation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_computation (or course I use the term Interactive TMs a bit loosely, but y'know...)