Re: Turing Machines and Physical Computation

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:01:06 GMT

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:03:53 GMT, JXStern <JXSternChangeX2R@gte.net>
in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:41:25 +0000 (UTC), "Kent Paul Dolan"
><xanthian@well.com> wrote:

[. . .]

>>I'm pretty sure at this point you have stepped well
>>past the bounds of sane thinking. You are trying to
>>limit "science" to "physical science", and that
>>limitation only exists in your own mind.
>
>Would you like to give an example of non-physical science?

Oh, geometry, math, logic.

Regards - Lester

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