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Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by SilasX on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:18PM (#18386892)
Not to endorse it, but that's the point Roger Penrose disputes, that human brains have access to some kind of Turing-uncomputable physics that gives them powers beyond Turing machines.
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Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by adrianN on Monday November 05, 2018 @07:13PM (#18387204)
Do we even have examples of physics that is not computable? Quantum computers can be simulated by a TM; closed timelike curves don't give you extra power either. As far as I know all the physics the we currently understand can be simulated to arbitrary precision on a TM. I don't really believe that brains have access to realms where quantum mechanics breaks down.
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Re:Intelligence as a Halting Oracle by yters on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:28AM (#18390369)
As far as I know you are correct. All physics is computable. Scott Aaronson, with expertise in quantum computing, claims all physical processes are Turing reducible.
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