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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: Quantum mechanics and CS [still no AI though]
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In article <1992Jun2.124621.18543@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
>stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) writes:
>> There is, of course, nothing even remotely disagreeable about using a
>> hidden-variable model of reality WITH ftl signalling.
>
>A very disconcerting idea if you've had a lot of physics courses, though.
>
>... Analogy of quantum mechanical hidden variable theories with
>pointers in computer science ....

Nothing strange if you consider the analogies drawn in this group about
psychology and quantum mechanics :-)

>> So: there's a lot of hidden state that is indetectable and thus not a
>> fit topic for contemplation; and space isn't as flat as you think
>> (having a topology, in fact, that is intimately connected with its
>> history). Sounds reasonable enough to me.
>
>Something like this could be true, I suppose.  But the computational
>nature of your physical theory points out the danger of saying that
>physics (e.g. analog transduction) has nothing to do with intelligence.
>If physics is computational and our Turing computations are a poor
>approximation thereof, it is not unreasonable the physical computations
>implemented in brains can exceed Turing computations by, for example,
>exhibiting consciousness.

which is computable by itself?
Then where is the danger?

Philip Santas

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