Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-19 Thread ronaldheld
Jason I would think normally the implant should work as well. Being Bajorean, could the missing essence be the influence of the Prophets? Data and the EMH should be able to pass the Turing test. Maybe I am missing something. A matter human in a matter universe should function the same as an

Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: But then a digital machine cannot see the difference between its brain emulated by a physical device, of by the true existence of the proof of the Sigma_1 relation which exists independently of us in arithmetic. Some

Re: advice needed for Star Trek talk

2010-12-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 09:15:20PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: No. The running of a program does NOT create a mind. It just makes it possible for a mind to manifest itself relatively to you. The mind is already related to the platonic relations between the numbers which exist in an infinity of