Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Terren, On 13 Jun 2011, at 18:46, Terren Suydam wrote: Long time lurker here, very intrigued by all the discussions here when I have time for them! Earlier in response to Colin Hales you wrote: Actually, comp prevents artificial intelligence. Can you elaborate on this? If we assume

Re: The Man Behind The Curtain

2011-06-14 Thread Allen Rex
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:55 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 6/11/2011 7:51 AM, Rex Allen wrote: Instrumentalism, anyone? I'll have a helping.  And I'll also note that instrumentalism with a pinch of common sense is as good as it gets. Common sense? What is this common sense

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-14 Thread Terren Suydam
Thanks for the reply Bruno, comments below... On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: doesn't that imply the possibility of an artificial intelligence? In a weak sense of Artificial Intelligence, yes. In a strong sense, no. If you are duplicated at the right

Re: COMP refutation paper - finally out

2011-06-14 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
The difference is in the paper and should be non-existent of COMP is true. Now I see your point. Thanks, I have missed it. On 14.06.2011 01:41 Colin Hales said the following: Hi Evgenii, I expect you are not alone in struggling with the Natural Computation (NC) vs Artificial Computation