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Article #8637Re: Can Machines Think?
From: zocy641
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 00:24
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1990 00:24
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Fred writes a program on his clone to sieve for primes. He then does a hex-dump of the compiled machine code, and puts the printout in a bottle. The bottle washes ashore at the feet of Sam. Sam has never seen a clone, in fact he has had no contact with any modern folks. Still he belives the symbols are some sort of message. Through great effort he finally extracts the algorithm from the code. Is there not then a realtion between the symbols the two men express the algorithm with? Where then where the symbols hiding in the bottle? BTW INHO I will be convenced to let the AIs vote in Usenet elections, when they can proform visual parsing. I.e. I send them some pictures in (say) Postscript, and they reply as to what they see. When I am content with the response, I will welcome them aboard. As a test case to calibrate the results, let's try the test on the current Usenet lusers. Send your entries to: Henry J. Cobb hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!zocy641 From: zocy641@ut-emx.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Can Machines Think? Message-ID: <23040@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 8 Jan 90 00:24:43 GMT References: <83367@linus.UUCP> <1989Dec18.014229.18058@athena.mit.edu> <979@metapsy.UUCP> <482@smcnet.UUCP> <GILHAM.90Jan3110834@cassius.csl.sri.com> Reply-To: hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 21