On 25 Aug 2012, at 12:35, Jason Resch wrote:
I agree different implementations of intelligence have different
capabilities and roles, but I think computers are general enough to
replicate any intelligence (so long as infinities or true randomness
are not required).
And now a subtle point. Perhaps.
The point is that computers are general enough to replicate
intelligence EVEN if infinities and true randomness are required for it.
Imagine that our consciousness require some ORACLE. For example under
the form of a some non compressible sequence
11101000011101100011111101010110100001... (say)
Being incompressible, that sequence cannot be part of my brain at my
substitution level, because this would make it impossible for the
doctor to copy my brain into a finite string. So such sequence
operates "outside my brain", and if the doctor copy me at the right
comp level, he will reconstitute me with the right "interface" to the
oracle, so I will survive and stay conscious, despite my consciousness
depends on that oracle.
Will the UD, just alone, or in arithmetic, be able to copy me in front
of that oracle?
Yes, as the UD dovetails on all programs, but also on all inputs, and
in this case, he will generate me successively (with large delays in
between) in front of all finite approximation of the oracle, and (key
point), the first person indeterminacy will have as domain, by
definition of first person, all the UD computation where my virtual
brain use the relevant (for my consciousness) part of the oracle.
A machine can only access to finite parts of an oracle, in course of a
computation requiring oracle, and so everything is fine.
Of course, if we need the whole oracular sequence, in one step, then
comp would be just false, and the brain need an infinite interface.
The UD dovetails really on all programs, with all possible input, even
infinite non computable one.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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