Roger , rclo...@verizon.net
8/16/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so
everything could function."
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From: Bruno Marchal
Receiver: everything-list
Time: 2012-08-15, 05:46:49
Subject: Re: Why AI is impossible
On 15 Aug 2012, at 04:22, William R. Buckley wrote:
> Dear Russell:
>
> When you can design and build a machine that builds itself, not
> its replicant but itself, then I will heed better your advice.
See my paper "planaria, amoeba and dreaming machine" (in the
publication part in my url).
Reproduction regeneration and embryogenesis are easily solved through
a theorem due to Kleene in theoretical computer science. They have
all
be implemented, so it is also practical computer science.
As I said: the notion of self is where computer science is at its
best.
I can sketch the main idea, if you desire.
Bruno
>
> wrb
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-
>> l...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:11 PM
>> To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Why AI is impossible
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0700, William R. Buckley
wrote:
>>> John:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regardless of your dislike for the term omniscience versus
>> universality, the
>>> Turing machine
>>>
>>> can compute all computable computations, and this simply by
virtue
>>> of
>> its
>>> construction.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> wrb
>>
>> John is right - omniscience is a different concept to
>> universality. For the sake of clearer conversation, it is better
to
>> keep that in mind, rather than arbitrarily redefining words
"Humpty
>> Dumpty" like.
>>
>> Of course, if there is no accepted definition for a concept, it
is OK
>> to propose another one. But please restrict it to concepts that
are
>> logically sound, and be prepared to drop your own definition if a
>> better one comes along.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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