Eliezer wrote: > 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.
Actually, Penrose and Hameroff are far from the only people to undertake this quest. They're simply the best-known, due to Penrose's excursions into popular science writing. Another example, off the top of my head, is Matti Pitkanen's work on the "quantum gravity of souls" ;) http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/soul.html It's a bit weird, but there is some serious physics and math in there. Actually, there is are more meat to Pitkanen's theory than to Penrose's physics/consciousness speculations. (Although Penrose of course was the author of some very meaty, high-quality physics totally separate from his interest in consciousness.) -- Ben Goertzel. ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
