Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.math,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine: a proof *and* a disproof! Message-ID: <3025@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 05:12:36 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3025 Posted: Fri Nov 8 05:12:36 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:22:47 EST References: <509@klipper.UUCP> <1096@jhunix.UUCP> <2081@umcp-cs.UUCP> <702@ecsvax.UUCP> <110@milford.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 Xref: linus net.math:2128 net.philosophy:2802 > A more interesting question here might be "What type of machine can accept > an arbitrarily chosen natural language?" I suspect that English is not > a regular language nor a context-free language; is it context-sensitive? > Is it more?? The fact that you consider the answers to these questions nonobvious is one of the many reasons why this discussion is stupid. I see that you have dropped net.philosophy and are just posting to net.math; this is EXACTLY BACKWARDS. Please only post discussions about mathematics to net.math. If people want to read discussions like this, they will be subscribers to net.philosophy. Thanks. (I'm about ready to unsubscribe from net.math and maybe net.physics due to all the net.philosophy garbage that is being misposted.)