Re: Can Computers Have Incomputable Concepts?

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:22:22 -0700, LauLuna <laureanoluna@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:


That is exactly why I'm asking for help. I don't know what it means
for a computer to have a concept. I'm suggesting to assume we are
computers and all possible human cognitive behavior is computation.
Then, since we undoubtedly have the concept of arithmetical truth,
there are computers that have that concept. But the concept is
incomputable; how is this possible?

See this:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.5.html

A.L.
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