Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-24 Thread meekerdb
On 8/24/2012 9:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: And those theorem are non constructive, meaning that in the world of inference inductive machine, a machine capable of being wrong is already non computably more powerful than an error prone machine. There's something wrong with that sentence. An

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-24 Thread meekerdb
On 8/24/2012 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 23 Aug 2012, at 15:12, benjayk wrote: Quantum mechanics includes true subjective randomness already, so by your own standards nothing that physically exists can be emulated. That's QM+collapse, but the collapse is not well defined, It is well

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/24/2012 12:02 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: As emulator (computing machine) Robinson Arithmetic can simulate exactly Peano Arithmetic, even as a prover. So for example Robinson arithmetic can prove that Peano arithmetic proves the consistency of Robinson Arithmetic. But you cannot conclude

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:57 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:12 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:57 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:52 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: So what is your definition of computer, and what is your evidence/reasoning that you yourself are not contained in that definition? There is no perfect definition of computer. I take computer to mean the usual physical computer, Why not use the notion of

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: 'You won't be able to determine the truth of this statement by programming a computer' If true then you won't be able to determine the truth of this statement PERIOD. Any limitation a computer has you have the

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: Taking the universal dovetailer, it could really mean everything (or nothing), just like the sentence You can interpret whatever you want into this sentence... or like the stuff that monkeys type on typewriters. A sentence (any string of information) can be

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread benjayk
Sorry, I am not going to answer to your whole post, because frankly the points you make are not very interesting to me. John Clark-12 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: 'You won't be able to determine the truth of this statement by

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Craig Weinberg
John Clark Aug 23 01:08PM -0400 We do things because of the laws of nature OR we do not do things because of the laws of nature, and if we do not then we are random. The laws of nature are such that they demand that we do things intentionally. This means

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:35 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: OK, take the sentence: 'Not all sentences have unambigous truth values - by the way you won't be able to determine that this sentence doesn't have a unambigous truth value by using a computer ' OK, if I changed

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/23/2012 2:18 PM, benjayk wrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: Each program has its own separate, non-overlapping, contiguous memory space. This may be true from your perspective, but if you actually run the UD it just uses its own memory space. What constitutes the memory space of the

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: The laws of nature are such that they demand that we do things intentionally. This means neither random nor completely determined externally. I see, you did it but you didn't do it for a reason and you didn't do it for no

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 8/23/2012 4:53 PM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com mailto:whatsons...@gmail.com wrote: The laws of nature are such that they demand that we do things intentionally. This means neither random nor completely determined externally. I

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:11 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: So what is your definition of computer, and what is your evidence/reasoning that you yourself are not contained in that definition? There is no perfect definition of computer.

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:18 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: Taking the universal dovetailer, it could really mean everything (or nothing), just like the sentence You can interpret whatever you want into this sentence... or like the stuff that

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Honestly I do not find the Gödel theorem a limitation for computers. I think that Penrose and other did a right translation from the Gódel theorem to a problem of a Turing machine,. But this translation can be done in a different way. It is possible to design a program that modify itself by

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-23 Thread Alberto G. Corona
What Gödel discovered were that the set of true statements in mathematics, (integer arithmetics) can not be demonstrated by a finite set of axioms. And invented a way to discover axioms with means of an automatic procedure, diagonalization, that the most basic interpreted program can perform. But

Re: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Clough
to invent him so everything could function. - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-21, 15:38:13 Subject: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers On 8/21/2012 1:35 PM, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Aug 21

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Aug 2012, at 00:26, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my

Re: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Clough
- From: benjayk Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-21, 18:26:33 Subject: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot

Re: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Clough
: everything-list Time: 2012-08-21, 18:08:08 Subject: Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Aug 2012, at 00:26, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 3:26 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 22 Aug 2012, at 12:17, benjayk wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: On 22 Aug 2012, at 00:26, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: I have no difficulty asserting this statement as well. See: Benjamin Jakubik cannot consistently assert this sentence is true. Benjamin Jakubik cannot consistently assert the following sentence without

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine a computer without an output. Now, if we look at what the computer is doing, we can not infer what it is actually doing in terms of high-level activity, because this is just defined at the output/input. For example, no video exists in the computer -

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine a computer without an output. Now, if we look at what the computer is doing, we can not infer what it is actually doing in terms of high-level activity, because this is

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: John Clark-12 wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: I have no difficulty asserting this statement as well. See: Benjamin Jakubik cannot consistently

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: John Clark-12 wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: I have no difficulty asserting this statement as well. See: Benjamin

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine a computer without an output. Now, if we look at what the computer is doing, we can not infer what it is actually doing in terms of high-level

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: John Clark-12 wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine a computer without an output. Now, if we look at what the

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: John Clark-12 wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread benjayk
Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Imagine a computer without an output. Now,

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Aug 22, 2012, at 1:57 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:48 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote:

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.comwrote: Jason Resch-2 wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:49 AM, benjayk

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: In this post I present an example of a problem that we can (quite easily) solve, yet a computer can't, even in principle, thus showing that our intelligence transcends that of a computer. [...] Is the following statement

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread smitra
It's a simple logical paradox, an AI could play the same game by asking: Is the following statement true? 'This statement can't be confirmed to be true solely by utilizing a human brain'. Saibal Citeren benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com: In this post I present an example of a

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread meekerdb
This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer On 8/21/2012 9:54 AM, benjayk wrote: In this post I present an example of a problem that we can (quite easily) solve, yet a computer can't, even in principle, thus showing that our intelligence transcends that of a

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Benjayk, Isn't this a form of the same argument that Penrose made? On 8/21/2012 12:54 PM, benjayk wrote: In this post I present an example of a problem that we can (quite easily) solve, yet a computer can't, even in principle, thus showing that our intelligence transcends that of a

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Aug 2012, at 20:15, meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer LOL. Of course, Clark is right, you should add consistently before confirmed, to avoid the refutation of a human claiming confirming that sentence. Or put consistent

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread benjayk
meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to Saibal). But it can't confirm it as well (how could it, since we as humans can't confirm it and what he knows about us derives from what we

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread benjayk
Stephen P. King wrote: Dear Benjayk, Isn't this a form of the same argument that Penrose made? I guess so, yet it seems more specific. At least it was more obvious to me than the usual arguments against AI. I haven't really read anything by Penrose, except maybe some excerpts,

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to Saibal). But it can't confirm it as well (how could it, since we as humans can't confirm it and what he knows

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread benjayk
meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to Saibal). But it can't confirm it as well (how could it, since we as humans can't

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to Saibal). But it can't confirm it as well (how could

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread benjayk
meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to Saibal). But it can't confirm it

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread meekerdb
On 8/21/2012 3:26 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:52 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 8/21/2012 2:24 PM, benjayk wrote: meekerdb wrote: This sentence cannot be confirmed to be true by a human being. The Computer He might be right in saying that (See my response to

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:18 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: It is true as well. We can even confirm it to ourselves. 'This statement can't be confirmed to be true solely by utilizing a human brain'. We can see its true, but whatever knows this, can't (solely) be the brain

Re: Simple proof that our intelligence transcends that of computers

2012-08-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:52 AM, benjayk benjamin.jaku...@googlemail.com wrote: Well, that is you imagining to be a computer. But program an actual computer that concludes this without it being hard-coded into it. All it could do is repeat the opinion you feed it, or disagree with you,

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