On 06 Mar 2013, at 00:03, Stephen P. King wrote:
On 3/5/2013 3:03 PM, William R. Buckley wrote:
Craig,
You build an automaton, place it and turn it on, and from that
point in time forward
the automaton reacts to acceptable information all on its own.
You contradict yourself – - I don’t think it has to be human –
machines only help
non-machines to interpret - - and if the human point is important,
then surely
you will accept your definition to be that it must be biological
life, for a machine
cannot be alive.
A machine is either a machine or it is not a machine – a machine
cannot be both
a machine and not a machine at the same time.
wrb
Do we have a exact definition of what is a "machine"?
This exists only for digital machine, today, assuming Church's thesis.
You can define a digital machine or a digital process by anything
Turing emulable, or emulable by a diophantine equation, or a
combinator, etc.
Bruno
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Onward!
Stephen
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