"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Roger , rclo...@verizon.net 8/17/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-14, 19:11:03 Subject: Re: Why AI is impossible On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:16:47AM -0700, William R. Buckley wrote: > John: > > > > Regardless of your dislike for the term omniscience versus universality, the > Turing machine > > can compute all computable computations, and this simply by virtue of its > construction. > > > > wrb John is right - omniscience is a different concept to universality. For the sake of clearer conversation, it is better to keep that in mind, rather than arbitrarily redefining words "Humpty Dumpty" like. Of course, if there is no accepted definition for a concept, it is OK to propose another one. But please restrict it to concepts that are logically sound, and be prepared to drop your own definition if a better one comes along. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
