Re: mercury rising query

staym@accessdata.com
Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:16:52 -0600

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Perry Metzger wrote:
> Unless you don't believe in the Church-Turing Thesis, it is unlikely
> that an autistic person is doing anything a machine couldn't do.

True, unless you believe (like Roger Penrose and many others) thet
consciousness is an inherently quantum effect, in which case you'd have
to consider a quantum turing machine.

check out http://www.neuroscience.com/qua09961/htm/f_body.html

(And since we can't program autistics and quantum computers won't be up
to the job for several years, I'd say we're drifting...)

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