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On 06/29/2011 11:46 AM, Richard Loosemore wrote:
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<tt>Stefano, your argument is fine .... except that you have
neglected
to notice that I was talking about whether a PC could simulate a
mind
"in real time". In other words, from the very beginning I have
been
talking about anything EXCEPT the universal computation issue!<br>
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I never disputed whether a tinkertoy or a bunch of marbles
running in a
maze (or a Searlean idiot locked up in a room with pieces of
paper
being passed under the door) could simulate a mind .... hey, no
problem: all of these things could simulate a mind if
programmed
correctly.<br>
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All I cared about was whether a PC could do it in real time. In
other
words, fast enough to keep up with a human.<br>
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Did you present you argument for operation throughput of the brain
and show that that the same operation throughput can be done on a
PC? If you did I missed it. If the PC cannot match the brain on
operation throughput then I don't see how you can say it is possible
for a PC to keep up with a human across all general intelligence
tasks. <br>
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- samantha<br>
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