On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Eric Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example, to make this concrete and airtight, I can add a time element. > Say I compute offline the answers to a large number of > problems that, if one were to solve them with a computation, > provably could only be solved by extremely long sequential > computations, each longer than any sequential computation > that a computer that could > possibly be built out of the matter in your brain could compute in an hour, > and I present you these problems and you answer 10000 of them in half > an hour. At this point, I am going, I think, to be pursuaded that you > are doing something that can not be captured by a Turing machine. >
Maybe your brain patches into a huge ultrafast machine concealed in an extra dimension. We'd just need to find a way to hack in there and exploit its computational potential on industrial scale. ;-) -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://causalityrelay.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
