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Re:Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009) by truantbuick on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:51AM (#7479747)
I'm no expert myself, but I thought the Turing-Church thesis implied the exact opposite. Turing machines and lambda calculus are widely assumed -- though not proved -- to be the limits of what can be computed. And yet, in a Gödelian fashion, for a given computer (equiv. set of finite axioms), you can always formulate deterministically true statements that cannot be computed.

Note that the formulation of these are counter-examples and thus assert a fundamental limit of computation, but it says nothing that there might be many other things that are non-computable that do not fit the form of these counter-examples.

Re:Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (2009) by eli_gottlieb on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:06AM (#7479812)
Hence why I'd said Turing-recognizable rather than Turing-decidable.