Re: Aaron Sloman's "The Irrelevance of Turing Machines to AI" article

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:34:56 +0000 (UTC)

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Wolf Kirchmeir <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> writes:

>Eray Ozkural exa wrote:
>...snip...

>> How else could we devise a general computational theory of learning?
>> Would we be talking about particular electronic switches, circuits,
>> network links, and so forth? That does not sound sensible.

>Insoifar as I can understand what you're saying, you seem to be claiming
>that it's possible to have a theory of learning without worrying about
>the underlying physical mechanisms.

That seems a reasonable view to me.

> If so, that would mean that this
>theory describes learning in terms of what, exactly? Software? The
>functioning of the system as a whole?

A computationalist such as Eray is likely to want a description in
terms of software. I would look for one in terms of the functioning
of the system as a whole.

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