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From: vicc@ucc.su.oz.au (Vic Cinc)
Subject: Re: Dennett versus Searle
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Neil Rickert (rickert@cs.niu.edu) wrote:

: [snip]
: mathematicians, but has no relevance to human cognition. 
: No matter
: how accurately we measure the behavior of a human during one person's
: lifetime, we will finish up with a finite set of limited precision
: data, and that makes it computable. 

no it doesnt. maybe you can fit a formula to past behavior,
but it will have zero predictive power...

Vic


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