RE: [agi] C-T Thesis (or a version thereof) - Is it useable as an in-principle argument for strong AI?

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Goertzel
If this physical interpretation of the Church-Turing thesis is accepted then it follows that if the physical brain and its operation is a well defined process then it must be possible to implement the process that the brain carries out on a Turing machine. This is the claim of Strong AI.

Re: [agi] C-T Thesis (or a version thereof) - Is it useable as an in-principle argument for strong AI?

2003-01-14 Thread Anand AI
Thanks, Ben, that answer will be useful for different things. http://sl4.org/bin/wiki.pl?SingularityQuestions (edited answer below question 5) Best, Anand Ben Goertzel wrote: The CT thesis would seem to imply the possibility of strong AI. That is, it implies that: On any general-purpose