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From: nrasch@cs.ruu.nl (Menno Rasch)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Pseudo-machine
Message-ID: <1991May16.101759.1757@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 16 May 91 10:17:59 GMT
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Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <5329@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (JONES, THOMAS) writes:

>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



You are right.... But IF......
(fhilosophy remember???)