From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sat May 12 2001 - 11:49:18 MDT
Scerir wrote:
>Are minds subject to laws of physics?
Yes.
>Are the laws of physics computable?
No, probably not.
>Are conscious thought processes computable?
Yes.
>Currently there is little agreement as to what are the right answers to
these
>questions. Penrose goes one step further and asserts that: "a radical new
>theory is indeed needed, and I am suggesting, moreover, that this theory,
>when it is found, will be of an essentially non-computational character.".
Penrose is baffling; as Mark S. Miller once said, "It's edifying
to witness how someone a lot smarter than I am can be dead wrong."
Lee Corbin
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