On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, ColinHales <[email protected]> wrote:
> There seems to be a profound, institutionalized failure within > scientists that results, for whatever reason, in an inability to > distinguish between the actual natural world and a (mathematical) > model of its behaviour, as apparent to a scientist. If you model a natural environment presenting some problem to a human within that environment, the simulated human will arrive at the same solution as the real human would have. If intelligence is problem-solving behaviour, there is therefore no difference between the natural world and the model provided that the model is in fact a good one. Your claim that computers cannot replicate human intelligence is thus equivalent to a claim that there is some process in the human brain which is not Turing emulable. What process do you think that might be? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
