On 1998-03-16 classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu said to lisard_at_zetnet.co.uk
:Perhaps
:incredibly, Turing _did_ believe that there was something special
:about the brain (in particular he could/would not rule out ESP) and
:so I don't think he would ever have claimed that a Turing Machine
:could do anything that a human brain could. The TM was designed to
:solve a specific problem in mathematical theory, rather than as a
:theoretical ultimate brain.
no, the brain/intelligence thing came with the "turing *test*" which is
the idea that you could converse with a computer on one terminal, a
human on another, and not be able to reliably identify which was which.
(turing was a complex, fascinating, and very innocent human, and he was
treated despicably by the british government after the second world
war.)
:But now you've got me trying to think of something that an
:analog(ue) computer can do that a digital one can't.
fuzzy logic...? ;>
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