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David Honig (honig@otc.net)
Mon, 06 Apr 1998 20:44:47 -0700
At 08:16 PM 4/8/98 -0600, staym@accessdata.com wrote:
>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.
Actually, any computer that can really roll dice is not a computer.
Turing machines can't do truly unpredictable things. Doesn't have
to be quantum-based randomness (unless there's no other kind :-)
Penrose's synaptic-vesicle-quantum-free-will bullshit is a fine example
of what a tenured dude can get away with. He's a dinosaur with
little appreciation for information processing, who resorts to
quantum mysticism.
Not that I have an opinion or anything...
Why is the CIA is so full of spies?
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:53 ADT