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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by rocqua on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:53PM (#14269967)
In the sense here, an agent that can see the future is 'infinitely intelligent'.

Seeing the future has a tendency of becoming paradoxical when you start acting on that information though.

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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by Ygg2 on Friday May 05, 2017 @06:13AM (#14272325)
I don't think that's true. A beast with ability to see two days in advance could easily kill a human, but still not be able to do anything else, like beat him at chess or make tools.
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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by emiliobumachar on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:42AM (#14274243)
Your example seems reasonable, but not as a rebuttal to the paradoxical nature of seeing the future.

The paradoxes are the same as in time travel. Imagine your best sees itself hunted down two days in advance; it simply goes somewhere else so the hunters don't find it. Then it didn't really see the future, did it?

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Re:Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute by abiox on Friday May 05, 2017 @05:23PM (#14276942)
> it didn't really see the future, did it

depends on your model of time and the universe, i suppose. perhaps "a future" vs "the future".

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