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Re: Computer 3-goD


  • From: P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Computer 3-goD
  • Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 18:09:43 -0500

Gregory J. Wageman writes

>Since we humans cannot even yet explain the process by which we "think", and
>as far as I know no one has yet proven whether or not the "mind" is simply
>a product of brain function, as opposed to something more metaphysical,
>I don't see how you are anyone can confidently predict that we will ever
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>be able to make a machine think like we do.  As you yourself pointed out,
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>a process must be described to the computer unambiguously and in the
>smallest detail.

I enddd on that point, that as you say above, no one can, which was what I 
was trying to say. No one was confidently predicting that it can but rather
that it very well might and is not an impossiblity.

Gabriel
The Enddd 


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