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From: jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (JONES, THOMAS)
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Subject: Pseudo-machine
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Date: 15 May 91 01:14:07 GMT
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Several writers have mentioned the idea of putting *all possible* English
conversations in memory.  Then the sentences can be retrieved, one by one.
The question now arises: Is this entity intelligent?  

I claim that we have a pseudo-issue and a pseudo-question.  The reason is
that you could convert all of the  matter in the Universe into memory
for such a device, without having nearly enough.  Thus the existence of
such a device would be radically impossible.

Tom