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In article <Dec.20.17.43.11.1989.15650@athos.rutgers.edu> hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) writes:
>
>	If you are a infinitely fined grained chaotic dynamic structure, then
>freezing you isn't going to do much good.
>
>	Otherwise you're a Turing machine, and might as well wake up in 
>hardware.

Um, if you are "infinitely fine grained", ie you require real-numbers,
*infinite* precision, then you're not a Turing machine regardless of whether
you're *chaotic* or not.  Of course, if you are chaotic, you better have
infinite precision...

Or if I'm wrong, would someone please explain why?

--
David A. Honig		
...
"Don't let your schooling interfere with your education."

[The original comments were presumeably tongue-in-cheek... However,
 let me reccomend Penrose's new book, "The Emperor's New Mind", to
 those interested in the subject.
 --JoSH]