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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
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Subject: Re: Infinite Minds?
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Date: 18 Mar 92 18:36:51 GMT
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In article <1992Mar17.181431.20297@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>  
pindor@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
| In article <1992Mar16.165050.4693@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas  
Clarke) writes:
| >I am from the school that  we don't really understand something until we can  
| >build it (maybe not even then).   ...
| >Until that day comes, it remains a _philosophical_ possiblity that the brain  
| >does not function digitally.  The digital functioning model is the most  
recent  
| >round in a debate that starts with the Greeks.  While its successes are  
| >suggestive, the model is not universally accepted, and many grow tired of  
| >waiting for conclusive evidence against its competitors.
| >
| Is the evicence for the competitors anywhere near the evidence suggesting 
| the digital functioning model? Growing tired is no justification for jumping  
to
| wild conclusions. Or at least for taking wild conclusions seriously without
| a sound evidence.

Wild conclusions?  I merely try to make the point that it is plausible that the  
brain may not function digitally.  Until the Church-Turing thesis is rigorously  
proved or disproved, the question remains open.


