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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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Subject: Re: AI seen as an experiment to determine the existence of reality
Keywords: Reality, brain, computability
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Date: 11 Jun 88 20:20:59 GMT
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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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Subject: Re: AI seen as an experiment to determine the existence of reality
Keywords: Reality, brain, computability
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Date: 11 Jun 88 20:20:59 GMT
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In article <517@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, simon@comp (Simon Brooke) writes:
>[...]
>If all this is so, then it is possible to exactly reproduce the workings
>of a human brain in a [Turing machine].

Your argument was pretty slipshod.  I for one do not believe the above
is even possible in principle.

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