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From: lambert@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mind as Turing Machine
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 09:06:28 EST
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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".
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     Lambert Meertens
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     CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam