Re: When Humans are Obsolete (MSNBC)

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Mar 24 1999 - 13:56:38 MST


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> Joe Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > Ok, forget Turing for now then. What physical process occurs in your
> > brain
> > that is not computable?
>
> I usually refer people to physicist Sir Roger Penrose and neurobiologist
> Dr. Stuart Hameroff on this one, even though their justifying Godelian
> arguments are bull.

It should be noted that their neurobiological arguments are also
considered bull by neuroscientists.

I have never had any problems with Turing-computable consciousness,
but then again, I'm a zombie. :-)

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