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To: tortoise
every test and measurement (both scientific and mathematical) indicates that the human mind is an extremely complicated but otherwise boring piece of finite state machinery.

How would you recognize if this were an incorrect statement?

76 posted on 01/10/2002 12:46:12 PM PST by Woahhs
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To: Woahhs
How would you recognize if this were an incorrect statement?

It would be falsified by a single test that could not detect finite state machinery generating what we generally call the mind. I actually find it fascinating, and the very first test that I am aware of was done as something of a parlor trick.

92 posted on 01/10/2002 1:25:41 PM PST by tortoise
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