Stephen Paul King wrote:[SPK] > It is trivial to show that TM's can not give rise to consciousness for the simple > reason that consciousness is not "pre-specifiable" in its behaviour. Have you read > Peter Wegner's papers about this?
and from a previous post: [SPK] > I agree. But could you get into detail on the nature of "allowed"? > What is the constraint? (I think that all that is needed is the weak anthropic >principle > but I could be missing something.) I think that we should consider the rule > "All is allowed that is not Forbidden" (by logical contradiction) instead of the >usual notion > " All is forbidden that is not allowed" (by prespecification, e.g. a priori >algorithms) > Peter Wegner has done a lot of research on this issue: > http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pw/papers/math1.ps I can't read his paper because my software doesn't accept PS File format... I have Adobe but this doesn't seem to help... Do you have any suggestions? George
