Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Roger Penrose

Author:Roger Penrose [Penrose, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780195106466
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Published: 2005-07-22T21:39:22+00:00

10.2 Of course, canned answers could in principle provide any answer you want - even with infinite numbers of alternatives if the canning is allowed to be infinite. But the whole point of a Turing test (as Turing himself importantly understood) is that it takes the form of a question and answer session. It is simply not practicable to take into account all conceivable questions and follow-up

questions and follow-up follow-up questions, etc. simply by storing all possible alternatives.

(Anyone who has contemplated the task of writing a comprehensive CD-ROM program - or even a book such as Shadows in which one attempts to “second guess” all readers’ possible counter-arguments - will begin to appreciate what I mean. There can be a significant complexity explosion even in the relatively short reasoning chains that are involved in such things.) Maudlin refers to this matter of complexity explosion, but he does not draw the appropriate conclusion from it.

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