Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 2/22/07, Brent Meeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: A patient says that his leg is paralysed, behaves as if his leg is paralysed, but the clinical signs and investigations are not consistent with a paralysed leg. The diagnosis of hysterical paralysis is made. A

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-22 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 2/22/07, Mark Peaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stathis: Stathis [from the other posting again]: 'There is good reason to believe that the third person observable behaviour of the brain can be emulated, because the brain is just chemical reactions and chemistry is a well-understood

Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Caylor
On Feb 20, 3:47 am, Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/20/07, Tom Caylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimate meaning is analogous to axioms or arithmetic truth (e.g. 42 is not prime). In fact the famous quote of Kronecker God created the integers makes this point. I think

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 2/22/07, *Brent Meeker* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote: A patient says that his leg is paralysed, behaves as if his leg is paralysed, but the clinical signs and investigations are not

Re: Searles' Fundamental Error

2007-02-22 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: On 2/22/07, *Mark Peaty* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The idea of the Turing test is that an algorithmic implementation of rules will give the required degree of spontaneous creativity. If you don't believe in this, then you don't