From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 11:41:00 MDT
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 "Marc Warner" <marc1warner@gmail.com> said:
> John - Why are your arguments about infinite loops limited to fixed goal
> minds? It seems that within your framework, a non-fixed goal mind would
> still be a Turing machine and susceptible to the same infinite loops.
In a real mind all goals are ephemeral, real minds have a wonderful
property that fictional fixed goal minds don't have, real minds get
board. Your top goal is to try something, nothing is happening, you drum
your fingers and say to hell with this, so now you have a new top goal
and try that.
John K Clark
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