On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 12:59:20 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > This guy, Peter Wegner, that pt referred to indirectly. > http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dgoldin/papers/strong-cct.pdf His point is > that human consciousness is an interactive program that receives arbitrary > and unknown inputs from the environment and is modified by those inputs. > He calls this model a PTM, Persistent Turing Machine, because it keeps a > memory and doesn't overwrite it. Of course you can say that whatever the > environmental input is, it can be included in the TM code, but then it is > potentially inifinite. > > Brent > > This is the paper I cited (the pdf link above):
*The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis* Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner (Brown University) I knew Peter Wegner [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wegner ] in the 1970s. Very interesting, dynamic guy. (I corresponded with his student Dina briefly after his death.) I see computing (I think like he did), as well as mathematics, as an *experimental, empirical endeavor*, without any preordained "theoretical" restrictions (as like from a* religious catechism*). @philipthrift -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
