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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