Re: [agi] C-T Thesis (or a version thereof) - Is it useable as anin-principle argument for strong AI?

2003-01-15 Thread Shane Legg
Hi, This isn't something that I really know much about, but I'll put my understanding of the issue down in the hope that if I'm missing something then somebody will point it out and I'll learn something :) The literal Church-Turing thesis states that all formal models of what constitutes a well

Re: [agi] C-T Thesis (or a version thereof) - Is it useable as anin-principle argument for strong AI?

2003-01-15 Thread Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
The C-T Thesis is an argument for Strong AI because it requires that any opponent of Strong AI posit a nonstandard model of physics to allow for noncomputable processes which, through a nonstandard neurological mechanism, have a noticeable macroscopic effect on brain processes. This is not a