Subj : Re: Incomputable
To   : comp.programming,comp.object
From : Dmitry A. Kazakov
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 04:14 pm

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:20:51 -0500, Chris Sonnack wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov writes:
> 
> The burning question is, what will happen when we turn it on?  Will we
> have a *mind* or just a big neural net.

A perceptron? (:-))

>> Nobody knows it for sure.
> 
> Right.  'Swhy I hope to be there!

Me too. Though I think that nature has a pair tricks in the sleeve...

>> Purely fictitious, let you can compute random distributions, rather
>> than their realizations (the only thing we can do now), then this
>> class of computing will be incomputable for any Turing machine.
> 
> Couldn't you do that now by using a true random (hardware) source?

Not really. The simplest thing: you cannot take a random generator multiply
it by another generator and get a third one - a product of. You can
multiply realizations, but that won't give you a new independent generator.
The soul is gone... (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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