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From: jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Can Machines Think?
Message-ID: <39@tygra.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 90 02:16:07 GMT
References: <83367@linus.UUCP} <1989Dec18.014229.18058@athena.mit.edu> <979@metapsy.UUCP> <482@smcnet.UUCP> <GILHAM.90Jan3110834@cassius.csl.sri.com> <23040@ut-emx.UUCP>
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In article <23040@ut-emx.UUCP} hcobb@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Henry J. Cobb) writes:
}
}	Fred writes a program on his clone to sieve for primes.  He then does
}a hex-dump of the compiled machine code, and puts the printout in a bottle.
}
}	The bottle washes ashore at the feet of Sam.  Sam has never seen a
}clone, in fact he has had no contact with any modern folks.  Still he
}belives the symbols are some sort of message.  Through great effort he finally
}extracts the algorithm from the code.  Is there not then a realtion between
}the symbols the two men express the algorithm with?
}
}	Where then where the symbols hiding in the bottle?
}

It would not be possible for "Sam" to extract the algorithm.      


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