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Article 3967 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: bhw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Feb24.164839.1584@aifh.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Feb 92 16:48:39 GMT
References: <1992Feb20.170044.24181@oracorp.com>
Reply-To: bhw@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Barbara H. Webb)
Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland
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In article <1992Feb20.170044.24181@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:
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>What I mean by implementation is pretty simple: A implements B if
>there are functions mapping states of A to states of B and inputs and
>outputs of A to inputs and outputs of B such that the mappings
>preserve the transition relations.

Surely this relationship of A and B is sufficient only for _simulation_.
Implementation requires (at least) an _identity_ of inputs and outputs
of the two systems, rather than a mere mapping between them.

BW


