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From: pepke@loligo.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Keywords: random? oh no!
Message-ID: <248@loligo.fsu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 88 04:25:02 GMT
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In article <42569@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes:
>In article <180@loligo.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.UUCP (Eric Pepke) writes:
> > A random number generator can only be consulted a finite number of
> > times in a lifetime.  For every finite sequence of such random numbers,
> > you can produce a partial Turing machine specification which produces
> > that sequence.  So, there's no problem.
>
>Just one problem, Eric.  You have to build your Turing Machine
>emulator before I have finished living my life.  The information
>you need to construct it is not available just yet.

No, I just need to have it complete by the time you are ready to compare
your life against it.  Betcha that given enough resources I can make one
between the time you die and the time you get used to flapping around your
ectoplasm.

>--Barry Kort

-EMP

"I don't know what this ectoplasm is that Arthur Conan Doyle keeps talking
 about, but it sounds like it would be great stuff to mend furniture with."
                                                           -Archy