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From: me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon)
Subject: Re: how many distinct thoughts can a person have?
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In article <1991Jun19.033316.18773@athena.mit.edu> mlevin@jade.tufts.edu writes:
>   I was just reading Z. Pylyshin's "Computation and Cognition", and
>at one point, he states something like: "the number of distinct human
>thoughts is uncountable." Does anyone have any arguments for or
>against the idea that the number of possible distinct human thoughts
>(or mental states) is uncountably infinite? Note I do not mean
>"astronomicallly large" - I mean infinite (and perhaps uncountably so)
>in the strict mathematical sense. It seems plausible to me; does
>anyone have a good argument either way?
>
>Mike Levin

And can they all dance on the head of a pin?


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