Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!boring!lambert From: lambert@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.math Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine Message-ID: <6678@boring.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 09:06:28 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6678 Posted: Sat Nov 2 09:06:28 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:22:16 EST References: <1996@umcp-cs.UUCP> <667@hwcs.UUCP> <2031@umcp-cs.UUCP> <212@ucdavis.UUCP> Reply-To: lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15 Xref: linus net.philosophy:2737 net.math:2104 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL In article <212@ucdavis.UUCP> cccjohn@ucdavis.UUCP (John Carlson) asks: > 2) Can we make something we will never comprehend, that is, > a higher intelligence? Parents can make something they will never comprehend, namely their children. Now I understand why human intelligence is ever-increasing. (Sorry, couldn't resist that.) Seriously, the incomprehensibility of a human-made formal system does not imply it is "higher". -- Lambert Meertens ...!{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!lambert@mcvax.UUCP CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam