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From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Success of AI
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Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 16:41:29 EST
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In article <193@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> spe@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Sean Engelson) writes:
/Given a sufficiently powerful computer, I could, in theory, simulate
/the human body and brain to any desired degree of accuracy...
/...if I can simulate the body in a computer, the
/computer is a sufficiently powerful model of computation to model the
/human mind...

The ultimate in "machine emulation"!!!!

Why does this remind me of Chomsky's concept of 'weak' and 'strong' 
equivalence between grammars?  Hmmm...

--alan@pdn