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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Infinite Minds?
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Date: 24 Mar 92 20:49:14 GMT
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In article <1992Mar23.231320.20388@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil  
Rickert) writes:
| In article <1992Mar23.171539.27586@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas  
Clarke) writes:
| >In article <1992Mar21.024804.10085@husc3.harvard.edu>  
| >zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
| 
| >| your own assumption.  Are you perchance assuming digital functioning of  
the
| >| universe? 
| 
| >I don't know whether physics is mechanizable by a Turing machine or not.   
| >Actually I suspect and hope not.  This is just hypothesis C.
| 
|  Whoa!  Just a minute.
| 
|  Even if physics can be computed to any desired degree of accuracy by a TM,
| this would not in any way prove that the universe is digital.
| 
True.  But that doesn't matter for the purposes of AI.  If mind is in the  
universe, and the universe can be computed to any desired degree of accuracy by  
a TM, then mind can be simulated by a TM.  Hence a TM can pass the T-test and  
the TM arguably has a mind.

Maybe I'm just being a positivist again.  


