Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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> Right!
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>>From: allcolor.domain.name.hidden
>>To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
>>Subject: Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really...
>>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:18:18 +0200
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>>Hi,
>>
>>Le Dimanche 20 Août 2006 05:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
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>>>Peter Jones writes (quoting SP):
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>>>>>What about an inputless computer program, running deterministically
>>>>>like a recording. Would that count as a program at all,
>>>>
>>>>It would be a trivial case.
>>>
>>>Trivial does not mean false.
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>>It seems to me that the set of inputless programs contains the set of programs
>>which have inputs. Because a program which have inputs could be written as
>>the following inputless program :
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>>|HARDCODED INPUT||CODE|
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>>The resulting program is input less but the "substructure" denominated CODE
>>here is not inputless, it takes the hardcoded input.
>>
>>So in any case I don't see why inputless program should be "trivial case".
>>
>>Regards,
>>Quentin
I thought the question was not about computation, but whether a program was
intelligent or conscious. I think that intelligence means being able to respond to a
variety of differenet inputs. So above |CODE| might be intelligent but not the
overall inputless program.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Mon Aug 21 2006 - 16:22:39 PDT