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>From: biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel)
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Subject: Re: Infinite Minds?
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zeleny@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:

...[much mercifully deleted]...
>[...] as I already
>noted earlier, I am not suggesting that the number of human representations
>is finite; still, this has absolutely no bearing on the cardinality of
>"Plato's world of ideas".

What is the cardinality of the world of ideas (in Plato's version of it)?

It does not seem to be denumerable, nor can I think of a preferred natural
ordering. Does it make sense to talk of the cardinality of ideas?

If it does not, and if "ideas" are considered essential to the act of 
cognition, how does this affect the Church-Turing hypothesis?

Regards,
       Heiner biesel@thrall.sim.es.com
       who gets his ideas wholesale from the National Enquirer.


