Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!FINFUN.BITNET!YLIKOSKI From: YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: replicating the brain with a Turing machine Message-ID: <880628230836.5.NICK@WITHERING.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 88 03:08:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 33 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu Return-path: <@AI.AI.MIT.EDU,@MITVMA.MIT.EDU:YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET> Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU by ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU via CHAOS with SMTP id 167780; 27 Jun 88 06:36:23 EDT Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU (TCP 2227000003) by AI.AI.MIT.EDU 27 Jun 88 06:36:06 EDT Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with BSMTP id 7090; Mon, 27 Jun 88 06:33:03 EDT Received: from FINFUN.BITNET (YLIKOSKI) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 7088; Mon, 27 Jun 88 05:04:31 EDT Date: Sat, 25 Jun 88 21:16 O From:Subject: replicating the brain with a Turing machine To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU X-Original-To: @AILIST, YLIKOSKI Distribution-File: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU In AIList Digest V7 #29, agate!garnet!weemba@presto.ig.com (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: >In article <517@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, simon@comp (Simon Brooke) writes: >>[...] >>If all this is so, then it is possible to exactly reproduce the workings >>of a human brain in a [Turing machine]. > >Your argument was pretty slipshod. I for one do not believe the above >is even possible in principle. Why? You must / at least should have a basis for the opinion. One possibility I can think of is the dualist position: we have a spirit but don't know how to make a machine with one. Any other Dualists out there? Andy Ylikoski