[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Georges wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So Bruno says that:
a) I am a machine.
b) ...no man can grasp all aspect of man
Tom says that to philosophize is one aspect of
humanness that is more than a machine (i.e.
simply following a set of instructions).
Jef and Brent
Tom Caylor writes:
We can't JUST DO things (like AI). Whenever we DO things, we are THINKING
ABOUT them. I'd venture to say that HOW WE THINK ABOUT THINGS (e.g.
philosophy, epistemology, etc.) is even MORE important that DOING THINGS
(engineering, sales, etc.). That is one way of looking
Le 08-févr.-06, à 22:55, Russell Standish a écrit :
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:17:05PM +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Hi,
we (as observer) perceive at any given time a finite amount of
information...
so what you could know (still as an observer of a system) is finite,
hence
digitalisable
Le 09-févr.-06, à 07:22, Kim Jones a écrit :
I was just about to ask what an angel was! You must have read my mind,
Bruno.
Non-machine-emulable is angel. OK.
Why do they(?) have to be called angel? Can one liken them(?) to the
theological description of an angel or is there some other
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:05:48PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
A UD can generate the set of all random strings, but it still needs to
select a single string to be equivalent to a Geiger counter.
AFAIK,
this is impossible for a Turing machine ...
Not if the UD (which is a turing machine)
Hi Russel,
Interleaving some comments...
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From: Russell Standish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Everything-List List everything-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Artificial Philosophizing
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On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:49:24PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
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@Article{Seznec-Sendrier03,
author = {Andr\'e Seznec and Nicolas Sendrier},
title = {{HAVEGE}: A user-level software heuristic for generating
empirically strong random numbers},
journal = {{ACM} Transactions on
Best of all - try a washing machine. Get all your wife's stockings
and throw them loosely into the washing machine and switch it on for
one cycle. When you see the state of entanglement of everything at
the end you will understand genuine randomness.
Kim Jones
On 10/02/2006, at 10:18
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