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Article 4883 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: A rock implements every FSA
Message-ID: <1992Apr2.202206.25306@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 92 20:22:06 GMT
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In article <1992Apr2.132116.26024@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:

>You forget that Putnam embeds his rock in the physical world subject to  
>non-repeating external disturbances.  Thus with proper of identification of  
>{single state} X {physical states} the single-state machine implements the  
>5-colour-map-checker, computationally as well as behaviorally.

No it doesn't, for the usual reasons.  (I hate to say "strong conditionals"
again.)

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


