On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 12:59:20 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > This guy, Peter Wegner, that pt referred to indirectly. > http://www.cse.uconn.edu/~dgoldin/papers/strong-cct.pdf His point is > that human consciousness is an interactive program that receives arbitrary > and unknown inputs from the environment and is modified by those inputs. > He calls this model a PTM, Persistent Turing Machine, because it keeps a > memory and doesn't overwrite it. Of course you can say that whatever the > environmental input is, it can be included in the TM code, but then it is > potentially inifinite. > > Brent > > This is the paper I cited (the pdf link above):
*The Interactive Nature of Computing: Refuting the Strong Church-Turing Thesis* Dina Goldin, Peter Wegner (Brown University) I knew Peter Wegner [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wegner ] in the 1970s. Very interesting, dynamic guy. (I corresponded with his student Dina briefly after his death.) I see computing (I think like he did), as well as mathematics, as an *experimental, empirical endeavor*, without any preordained "theoretical" restrictions (as like from a* religious catechism*). @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
