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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
Message-ID: <1576@ucl-cs.uucp>
Date: 28 May 91 18:23:53 GMT
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ziane mikal writes:
 > In article <1575@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
 > >
 > >In this thread Kuhn's work has been cited. Popper (?) has suggested
 > >that physics is method of constructing models that describe the
 > >physical world. The model and reality are always distinct. The model
 > >approaches reality, as Newton was "falsified" when Einstein came
 > >along. Special Relativity improves on Newton and with Quantum
 > >Mechanics gave some predictive power, eg muon decay. Now superstring
 > >theory is poised to make General Relativity and Quantum Theory
 > >"false"; well it will unify the two, since a Quantised General
 > >Relativity Theory has eluded scientists.
 > 
 > You can have a complete model of a part of reality ! 

Which part of reality has a complete model? An exact model?

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