Comment by pegasus
5 days ago
They can be made boring by reducing them to an arbitrary choice of definition of the word "thinking", but the question is really about weather inference is in principle as powerful as human thinking, and so would deserve to be applied the same label. Which is not at all a boring question. It's equivalent to asking weather current architectures are enough to reach AGI.
> inference is in principle as powerful as human thinking
There is currently zero evidence to suggest that human thinking violates any of the basics principles of the theory of computation nor extend the existing limits of computability.
> Which is not at all a boring question.
It is because you aren't introducing any evidence to theoretically challenge what we've already know about computation for almost 100 years now.
> There is currently zero evidence...
Way smarter people than both of us disagree: among them being Roger Penrose, who wrote two books on this very subject.
See also my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804258
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
Can you just point me to the concrete examples (the most compelling examples in the book would work) where we can see "thinking" that performs something that is currently considered to be beyond the limits of computation?
I never claimed no one speculates that's the case, I claimed there was no evidence. Just cite me a concrete example where the human mind is capable of computing something that violates the theory of computation.
> "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
Fully agree, but you are specifically discussing philosophical statements. And the fact that the only response you have is to continue to pile undefined terms and hand wave metaphysics doesn't do anything to further your point.
You believe that computing machines lack something magical that you can't describe that makes them different than humans. I can't object to your feelings about that, but there is literally nothing to discuss if you can't even define what those things are, hence this discussion is, as the original parent comment mention, is "extremely boring".
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