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Article 5102 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Robert Rosen & Physical form of Church's Thesis
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Date: 13 Apr 92 19:50:09 GMT
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In article <oFD2iB2w164w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> tomh.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu writes:
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|Well, the idea is to use an analog computer to 'compute' one of those
|non-effectively computable physical processes.  The difficulty is that
|an analog computer cannot be started with a specified exact initial
|condition, due to limitations of finite precision.
|

So what, as someone else has already pointed out this just says that
identical twins will not behave exactly alike.

Unless one is trying to duplicate a *particular* mind, the exact initial
conditions do not matter, as long as they fall within the correct basin
of attraction for the dynamic system.
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