"We must resist the temptation to believe that all thinking follows the computational model." - Peter Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, page 147
The thesis of the author's argument is in the middle of the second page. Essentially, he claims that minds and biological systems continually interact with an environment in which not much is known a posteriori. Thus, he concludes that universal Turing machines cannot compute minds.
In the next sentence (top of the third page) he states "Still, this does not imply that minds cannot be computed." Huh? Aren't Turing machines (and equivalents) capable of performing all computations? Or do I misunderstand the Church-Turing Thesis?
The thesis of the author's argument is in the middle of the second page. Essentially, he claims that minds and biological systems continually interact with an environment in which not much is known a posteriori. Thus, he concludes that universal Turing machines cannot compute minds.
In the next sentence (top of the third page) he states "Still, this does not imply that minds cannot be computed." Huh? Aren't Turing machines (and equivalents) capable of performing all computations? Or do I misunderstand the Church-Turing Thesis?