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- From: p_misiak@unibwh.unibw-hamburg.de (Carlo Misiak)
- Subject: Re: Turing Indistinguishability is a Scientific Criterion
- In-Reply-To: harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU's message of Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:01:21 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:54:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep6.200121.4383@Princeton.EDU> harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) writes:
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- The only open questions are (1) whether there is more than one way to
- design a candidate to pass the TTT, and if so, (2) do we then need a
- stronger test, the TTTT (neuromolecular indistinguishability), to pick
- out the one with the mind? My guess is that the constraints on the TTT
- are tight enough, being roughly the same ones that guided the Blind
- Watchmaker who designed us (evolutionary adaptations -- survival and
- reproduction -- are largely performance matters; Darwinian selection
- can no more read minds than we can).
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- What about a TTTT that incorporates that what is depicted in Asimovs
- `Bicentennial Man' -- not that I do not agree with a mere TTT ...
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- Carlo Misiak
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- *** All that we C or Scheme is but a mind in the machine *** (remember POE) ***
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