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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 07:08:41 GMT
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In article <3bbmpe$5lg@jetsam.ee.pdx.edu>,
Marcus Daniels <marcus@ee.pdx.edu> wrote:
>rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>
>>As long as part of our knowledge arises from reality, the claim that
>>the mind is "just a recursive function" is an assertion about
>>cosmology.  There is not sufficient evidence to support such a
>>claim.
>
>What would be sufficient evidence?  A computer with an IQ of 3000
>that passed the Turing test on everyone it communicated with?
>
>Let me guess: such evidence, in principle, is impossible.
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Yep! And wait till that very robot doubts HIS "TRUE AWARENESS" and laughs
at him and walks away!!!;->
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

