hey andrea ceusu , i like that explanation. it makes real sense. now
thinking abt it..i agree with u. that could have happened and it is a good
possibility that the infinite loop must be the coma.
mary anne vincent
>From: Andreea Ceausu <ceausu@yorku.ca>
>Reply-To: Ceausu@yorku.ca
>To: math3500@mathstat.yorku.ca
>Subject: Riddle possibilities
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:41:39 -0500
>
>(Name: Andreea Ceausu)
>
>I want to bring my own idea to this discussion of what happened to the
>supervisor versus what didn't happen to the programmer.
>
>I believe that what Cherniak's story relates is a world of people where it
>is
>possible that minds are equal machines, i.e. that a mind can be modeled by
>a
>machine because it is equal to a machine. So, in this world every person's
>mind is a like a machine in that there exists a Godelian statement that
>throws
>it off into an infinite cycle of proving and disproving -- i.e., the trance
>and eventual coma. So, the reason a Riddle could affect one person and not
>another, is because each person/each mind/each machine has its OWN Godel
>statement that the mind cannot prove. Eventually, one by one, each person
>in
>the universe read some statement that happened to be that person's Godel
>statement and so threw it into the infinte loop. The infinite loop is the
>coma
>everyone fell into. That's how I see it!
>
>
>Quoting Andrei Banica <jaxul@yorku.ca>:
>
> > To me the case of the supervisor that read the code after the agency
> > relocated
> > is the strangest. Whatever each of the people who got sick read
>triggered
> > some
> > type of switch that caused the mind to become inactive. The fact of the
> > matter
> > is that only people who understood the information became ill. I believe
>that
> >
> > if anything the generated code seemed to outsmart the human mind seeing
>that
> >
> > it caused for it to cease basically all functions. I also believe that
> > the 'system crash theory' could be a viable one in this case. If we were
>to
> > suppose that Cherniak's sotory were to become reality one day, would it
>prove
> >
> > that the human mind isn't so flawless after all and that the line
>between
> > machine and brain has indeed become very thin?
> > --
> > Andrei Banica
> > jaxul@yorku.ca
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