On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Then why can't a one dimensional Turing machine do geometry, >> > > > It can solve geometry problems, >
Yes. > but it can't generate geometric forms. > Can you generate geometric forms? Your fingers can draw a triangle but are you fingers you, if your fingers were cut off would you no longer be you? > It has nowhere to draw a triangle and nothing to draw it with, no eyes to > see it, and no mind to appreciate it as a form. > I don't know what your point is. Yes if you restrict a AI to one dimension then obviously it will not be able to draw a triangle, but you couldn't either. > It can tell you all kinds of things about triangles, just like Mary can > tell you all kinds of things about red, but there is no experience which is > triangular. > Then give the AI experience with triangles, after all the brain of a real AI will be just as 3D as your brain. > A universe generated by Turing-like arithmetic would not and could not > have any use for multi-dimensional presentations. > A one dimensional Craig Weinberg would not and could not have any use for multi-dimensional presentations. > Since we actually do live in a universe of mega-multi demensional sensory > presentations, that means that comp fails > Fine, "comp" fails. I'm glad to be rid of it as I never even knew what the damn word meant and have become increasingly convinced that nobody else on this list knows either. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
