Turing the Gospel

[jporter]

>jporter writes:
>>The most interesting aspect of Turing's famous article, for me at least, is
>>the subtle recognition that the existence of Artificial Intelligence would
>>logically imply the existence of E.S.P. The two are liked in two ways.
>>Primarily, the existence of non-corporeal intelligence is, by definition,
>>extra-sensory. One need go no further. The cat is out of the bag. The proof
>
>Eh? Thinking machines, though they wouldn't have corpuses like OURS,
>certainly seem to be corporeal. And 'sensory' would seem to be easily
>linked to whatever input devices a thinking machine would need.
>
>Can you be a little more clear here?


I think so, but not now- duty calls. I'll get back...maybe even get off
that post on the New Genetic Alphabet -NGA- I've been contemplating.
Something about the image of Tchich rearranging the links between the
typewriter's hammers and keys has got me spooked.

jody