Re: Human mind not Turing computable according to Eliezer?

From: Bill Hibbard (test@demedici.ssec.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 07:21:08 MDT


Penrose makes a very specific mistake: he uses infinite
Turing machines to model human brains whereas they should
be modeled by finite state machines. As I show in:

  http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/g/appendix.html

his argument breaks down if the Turing machines are
replaced by finite state machines.

Cheers,
Bill



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