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The false conclusions philosophers, computer scientists and many others draw due to misunderstanding, or misapplying, the Church-Turing thesis are every bit as
by Confusion 15y ago
The false conclusions philosophers, computer scientists and many others draw due to misunderstanding, or misapplying, the Church-Turing thesis are every bit as problematic as those false conclusions that result from misunderstanding or misapplying the incompleteness theorems. See http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church-turing/
In both cases the problem is insufficiently respecting the rigorous boundaries on what the theorems actually say and apply to. Neither theorem has anything to say about consciousness and the human mind, unless a lot of currently unproven preconditions, some of which seem unlikely, get proven first.