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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article (was: Roger Penro
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In article <CzH5A9.25x@festival.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article <1994Nov18.134842.27593@oxvaxd> econrpae@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>
>>(2) In order for a creature to have mental state X, that creature must have
>>certain quantum-physical properties
>
>>Now (2) does indeed threaten AI. 

How so?  Why can't an artificial construct have the required QM
properties?

Now, maybe digital-computer-AI is threatened (though some argue
otherwise), but why restrict ourselves to that?

-- jd
