Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.math Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine Message-ID: <2012@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 15:13:54 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.2012 Posted: Sat Nov 2 15:13:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 08:49:39 EST References: <1996@umcp-cs.UUCP> <667@hwcs.UUCP> <2031@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.philosophy:2996 net.math:2461 >>We cannot now do X THEREFORE we cannot ever do X >> where X = build a heavier than air flying machine >> = transmute one substance into another >> = model brain behaviour with a computer etc etc etc > Well, the correct analogy in the first case is > X = Build a Flying machine with flapping wings > and in the second case > X = Transmute a substance using alchemy > which fit well with the third > X = Model the brain with a VonNeuman machine > > I'm not arguing that we can't model the brain with a computer. [WINGATE] The argument is with those who insist that we cannot model the brain with a machine at all. -- "Mrs. Peel, we're needed..." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr