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

[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 knockdown argument but it is a strong one; only Penrose and Hameroff have had the courage to face it down openly - postulate, and search for, both the new physics and the new neurology required.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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