On 14 Aug, 02:18, David Nyman <david.ny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/14 Brent Meeker <meeke...@dslextreme.com>:
> If we take 'sufficiently' to the limit I suppose I must agree. But as
> before, in terms of stuffy ontology, any digital emulation - if that's
> what we're still discussing - is a model, not the stuff modelled, and
> hence wouldn't meet any such criterion of sufficiency. If we accept
> for the sake of argument a stuffy TM as equivalent to a stuffy brain,
> then what we're asked to accept here is that - although emulated
> bricks are no good for stuffy house building - stuffy neurons are just
> great for stuffy brain building. But why isn't a stuffy TM running a
> computation just a stuffy TM running a computation: WYSIWYG isn't it?
The standard response is that cogitation is one of a special subset
of tasks where the gap between simualtion and realisation vanishes.
Simulated flying isn't flying, but simuilated chess *is* chess.
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