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From: berger@aecom.UUCP (Mitchell Berger)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sc--nce Attack (self-awareness)
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 17:29:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 17:29:09 1985
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> My understanding is that Godel's incompleteness theorems prove
> (assuming the consistency of Arithmetic) that no Turing machine
> can possibly simulate the human mind.

What Godel's theorem says is that if one assumes Math to be 
consistent, it must be incomplete. Thus, a Turing machine is
either inconsistant or incomplete. Who ever said the brain is 
consistant or complete? Why is it outside the realm of Turing 
Machines?

                            Micha Berger

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purely the author's own, but he won't 
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