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Thought experiment: under the premise that a human brain can theoretically be simulated by a beefy Turing machine (not a foregone conclusion to be sure), then w

by avaer 9y ago

Thought experiment: under the premise that a human brain can theoretically be simulated by a beefy Turing machine (not a foregone conclusion to be sure), then wouldn't it follow that human experience can indeed be reduced to a concept like "gaining points"?

adrianN 9y ago
For suitably defined "points", anything can be reduced to the concept of "gaining points". That doesn't imply that this is an interesting or useful reduction.
panic 9y ago
Points are a single number. There would presumably be a lot of numbers involved in such a machine.