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Article #35Re: Turtles All the Way Down
From: Jeff Dalton
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 20:29
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 20:29
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In article <37l2d0$hpr@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > >Personally, I tend to doubt any argument which tries to make anything >important out of a difference between digital and analog. It is >worth remembering that movie theaters have long been delivering >discrete shows, with the picture image switching 24 times per second, >and except for the occasional backward turning wagon wheels, it all >looks continuous to us. This should caution us that arguments about >the importance of analog components are bogus. Can be bogus. But I find this discussion puzzling. If some quantum effects are required (which is what Penrose seems to think), then presumably they must actually take place and not just be simulated by some numbers that go through the right motions. Now that in itself is no threat to *artificial* intelligence, so why are people so determined to crush the idea? -- jeff
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa00e,2046408eafcfd07 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa00e,public X-Google-Thread: 10681a,fd68b54591b3153e X-Google-Attributes: gid10681a,public X-Google-Thread: 1045ed,fd68b54591b3153e X-Google-Attributes: gid1045ed,public X-Google-Thread: 10ca9b,fd68b54591b3153e X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca9b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-27 13:29:36 PST Newsgroups: sci.nonlinear,sci.cognitive,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai.philosophy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uknet!festival!edcogsci!jeff From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Subject: Re: Turtles All the Way Down Message-ID: <CyCM9C.960@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Nntp-Posting-Host: bute-alter.aiai.ed.ac.uk Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland References: <37kblp$ak1@universe.digex.net> <37kln5$nh3@portal.gmu.edu> <37l2d0$hpr@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 20:29:36 GMT Lines: 21