On 5/29/2012 10:52 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, May 27, 2012 Aleksandr Lokshin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> All main mathematical notions ( such as infinity, variable, integer
number) implicitly
depend on the notion of free will.
Because nobody can explain what the ASCII string "free will" means the above statement
is of no value.
> A new approach to the Alan Turing problem (how to distinguish a person
from an
android) is also proposed ; this approach is based on the idea that an
android
cannot generate the notion of an arbitrary object.
But "arbitrary" just means picking something for no reason or picking something just
because you like it but you like it for no reason; in other words it means random. It's
true that a pure Turing machine can not produce randomness, however this limitation can
be easily overcome by attaching a very simple and cheap hardware random number generator
to it.
Or by computing psuedo-random numbers with a sufficiently long period that no one will be
able to determine the algorithm.
Brent
Then the android could be as arbitrary as any arbitrary person, if you think being
arbitrary is a virtue that is.
John K Clark
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