RE: What Computationalism is and what it is *not*

2005-09-08 Thread John M
--- Lee Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John writes Computationalism is yet another claim. It's the notion that all of our own thoughts as well could be implemented on a Turing Machine in a way that would deliver to us just as much experiential satisfaction. According

Re: What Computationalism is and what it is *not*

2005-09-08 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hi Norman, Only when you demand that the computations be done in real time there is a problem. My point is that this problem is not relevant. Any TM that you can build will have limitations because of the laws of physics. Suppose that simulating the time evolution of 1 isolated cubic meter of