From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 14:05:40 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Consciousness is real. It affects us, physically - it certainly affects
> the physical words we type on our physical keyboards, or what on Earth are
> we talking about? If you find yourself discussing Turing machines that
> run for O(2^N) years, it may be an indication that you're looking in the
> wrong place for answers...
If, as it turns out, there's nothing out there but finite-state Turing
machines, then that tells us something rather interesting indeed: that
there is nowhere else to look.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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