Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihnp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!ucdavis!ucbvax!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihnp1!pnp From: pnp@ihnp1.UUCP (Peter Prokopowicz) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine: a proof *and* a disproof! Message-ID: <335@ihnp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 09:43:13 EST Article-I.D.: ihnp1.335 Posted: Thu Nov 7 09:43:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 03:46:27 EST References: <1996@umcp-cs.UUCP> <718@h-sc1.UUCP> Reply-To: pnp@ihnp1.UUCP (45262-Peter Prokopowicz) Followup-To: 2976 Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 5 Even if it is presumed that the brain has a finite memory capacity, that one fact does not make it appropriate to compare it to a finite state machine, or Turing machine, for that matter. That's like comparing apples and dogs, or trying to decide if the workings of our kidneys best be described by a context free or regular grammar.