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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Pseudo-machine
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Date: 21 May 91 11:48:39 GMT
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Mark William Hopkins writes:
 > In article <5329@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jones@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
 > (The look-up table language processor)
 > >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.
 > 
 > Not so.  Almost all the information is redundant, hence a suitable compression
 > algorithm exists to compact all that information into a space smaller than the
 > human brain (which our brain is proof of).
 > 

DNA also exhibits much "redundancy" (< 75% ?) in its 3 x 10**6 bits.
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