Hi everyone, I have been a silent observer of this group for a while, but not really had the time (or the background) to contribute to the discussion so far....
While the Turing machine is not a good practical model for many problem types it is most certainly a general theoretical model of computing. The implication...
I should have mentioned that in my view the object model is a complete and simple model of computation that makes the issue of methodology mute. It have two...
... I disagree with this entirely. I say that computation is about how we can build nice, little machines that can be filled with bits, cranked, and somehow ...
... Outstanding! Five year ago, ... well, I guess I was early to the vague idea that the underlying process of computation needed reexamination, but somewhat...
Josh, you wrote, ... Turing Machines have -by definition- infinite tapes and thus (so far as I am aware) are impossible to implement, unlike Buicks. ... I find...
... This is a common and pernicious misinterpretation of Turing's work. It is my view that Turing needs to be better understood. If Smith and Sloman agree...
... Buicks use an indeterminant amount of gas, just as any problem can only use a finite finite tape in finite time. You can in principle add tape as needed...
... The instantaneous description (ID) of a TM is finite at all times. The "infinite" part of the tape has constant algorithmic complexity (it is all blank...
... Please do, it wouldn't hurt if you have two or three! ... I'm not certain I know the difference, but it seems to me that the mathematicians I run into, or...
Josh, you wrote that, ... framework ... My understanding is that the intellectual significance of Turing's work lies precisely in what it says about computable...
Turing's machine must be considered independent of the rest of Turing's work if it is the generality of the machine that is at issue. Certainly any associative...
Hello, David. Sorry for responding a little late. I hope the heat of discussion has not dropped below the reply threshold, yet. ... Thanks for participating in...
... I think what I said it non-controversial, that the invention of the Turing machine itself has turned out to be much more important than any particular...
... I think what you see is a computer science guy rather light on philosophical background and style, and not keeping the logic straight, either, as you point...
... Okay, this is not unlike the traditional view, but then, I think you don't consider such a thing as replication of DNA as computation. I do, because I ...
Eray... You may not think very highly of Smith's arguments, but given his background (see http://www.counterbalance.net/bio/csmith- body.html for a short...
... You can make much of a sign versus a symbol, but I propose that the philosophical, philological, and semiotic literature of the last 2,500 years does not...
Earlier Josh wrote, ... You ask "What is computational but not cognitive?" Am I missing something? How about your PC or even a pocket calculator? I presume you...
... Maybe, but I want arguments, not assertions. Remember, McCarthy (in)famously claims that a bimetallic strip is "intelligent", just not *very* intelligent....
... Jim, I think we're in general agreement on a lot of these things, thanks for your posts. To pick a nit here, I would not want to say that cognition is ...
... I am proposing an information system. ... I suspect that would could be the taxidermy of an evolutionary information ecology. The general formalism is...
Interesting, I agree. The brain is not just a computer is it a highly complex dynamical information system with atoms as unwitting computational and...
Hi all, I pretty much enjoy the active and high-level ongoing discussion. It reminds me that I "always" wanted to write the following: [assuming that...
Here are the seven "conclusions" Smith describes in his paper. I make a brief comment about each, including whatever degree of agreement or disagreement I can...
I have finally finished reading this version of the paper (having previously read the book version and the one in the conference preceedings.) I still don't...
... Dingleballs, how did I do that, and I wanted especially to get to the last two!!!! Phone must have rang just then, or something, ... dashing off these...
... Yes, but this would mean that the AI is actually able to rewrite itself entirely. If we were modelling human cognition, this would not be permissible....
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