Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

On Fri, 09 May 2008 22:57:02 GMT, Gene <gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David DeLaney) wrote in
news:slrng29dl6.a1.dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Dave "it might actually be in the laws of mathematics
instead" DeLaney

I heard someone propose that just writing down a specification
for a complex enough Turing machine might create a
consciousness.

That's a bit like Egan's Dust theory of computation, and probably
equally pointless.

Cheers - Jaimie
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It's smaller and more eccentric." -- Arthur C. Clarke
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