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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
- Subject: Re: Turing Indistinguishability is a Scientific Criterion
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.171309.23153@access.usask.ca>
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- References: <1992Sep6.200121.4383@Princeton.EDU> <Bu7oK5.BIK@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:13:09 GMT
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- In article <Bu7oK5.BIK@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca>, ward@sun17.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Ward) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep6.200121.4383@Princeton.EDU> harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) writes:
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- |> One does not make machines that merely duplicate human function - they must
- |> do it better. If you wish to create a thinking machine, then it must think
- |> better than a human (otherwise, I can tell you of a lot simpler (and
- |> _definitely_ more fun :-) method of creating thinking beings).
- |>
- |> Of course, the only thing that puts us at the top of the evolutionary heap
- |> seems to be the fact that we outthink everthing else on the planet. So, if
- |> you still want to create a thinking machine, be prepared to become No. 2.
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- Can we say that computers are extensions of ourselves? When we use an
- automobile to move our butts to point B, we benefit from the machine.
- When a thinking machine tells us something that we didn't know, we benifit
- from the machine. We could well have come up with the same knowledge
- without the machine given enough time.
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- Let's look at the brain. It seems to have independently functioning
- parts. There's something that handles sight and something else that
- handles breathing. We can interface a computer to the brain. It'll
- just be another functioning unit. Just like adding a boat trailer
- to a truck. You just wind up turbocharging your brain.
-
- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
-