[Wittrs] Re: On the Mechanism of Understanding
- From: "iro3isdx" <xznwrjnk-evca@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:26:08 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kirby urner <kirby.urner@...> wrote:
> I thought the Emperors New Mind (Sir Roger) was pointing in a good
> direction in some ways.
It's mostly just silly (in my opinion).
> I like the idea of "non-computable".
Perhaps it has a curious ring to it. However, anything non-computable
is infinite (whether a number with infinite decimal expansion, or a
procedure that doesn't finish after a finite number of steps).
We don't live long enough for infinite things to crop up. And that's
why Penrose's ideas are just silly.
Regards,
Neil
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