Stephen Paul King wrote:[SPK]
> It is trivial to show that TM's can not give rise to consciousness for the simple
> reason that consciousness is not "pre-specifiable" in its behaviour. Have you read
> Peter Wegner's papers about this?
and from a previous post:
[SPK]
> I agree. But could you get into detail on the nature of "allowed"?
> What is the constraint? (I think that all that is needed is the weak anthropic principle
> but I could be missing something.) I think that we should consider the rule
> "All is allowed that is not Forbidden" (by logical contradiction) instead of the usual
notion
> " All is forbidden that is not allowed" (by prespecification, e.g. a priori algorithms)
> Peter Wegner has done a lot of research on this issue:
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pw/papers/math1.ps
I can't read his paper because my software doesn't accept PS File format... I have Adobe
but this doesn't seem to help... Do you have any suggestions?
George
Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 23:01:44 PST