Am Samstag, 29. Dezember 2007 20:15 schrieb Bulat Ziganshin:
Hello Tim,
Saturday, December 29, 2007, 10:07:15 PM, you wrote:
ok, please compute 2^2^30 before continuing discussion. it seems that
Well, that's why I recommended the Dennett essay. The difference between "I'm too bored" and "I can't" is actually an interesting philosophical question, and people have written about it in detail before.
oh, Dennett isn't only source of wisdom. i proposed you this task because i've my own understanding of it. as i've said in other letter, both computers and humans may be described using mathematics and therefore equivalent - as far as we say about theoretical immortal man and Turing machine
The advantages of computers over humans are quantitative. For example, a computer can do calculations faster than a human. But the “advantages” of humans over computers are qualitative. For example, a computer cannot be creative. I love my children. My laptop isn’t able to do that. Best wishes, Wolfgang