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Article 6295 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Vitalism and Intellectuaism
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Date: 17 Jun 92 21:34:29 GMT
References: <1992Jun7.002032.614@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Jun8.134537.468@cs.ucf.edu> <1992Jun10.041831.16727@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Jun11.181124.19003@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
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In article <1992Jun11.181124.19003@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> rwmurphr@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert W Murphree) writes:
|nlc@media.mit.edu (Nick Cassimatis) writes:
|If the virus-other species system is sufficiently complicated to defy
|simulation by symbol manipulating devices, which maybe it is, then maybe
|understanding is also something which requires something more than 
|symbol manipulation-being as such or whatever.

It is certainly beyond the capabilities of currently available computational
devices, but is this an intrinsic limitation, or just a current engineering
limit?  The answer is not clear.  (There is *also* the fact that we do not
know enough about the virus-cell system to fully specify the parameters of
the simulation).
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