In Mr.Cherniak's reading he says ".. The riddle is sometimes described as
'the Gödel sentence for human Turing machine' which causes the mind to jam;
traditional doctrines of the unsayable and unthinkable are cited.." The
answer to our question might lie in this one sentence. According to
Prof.Juris Stepran’s, "Turing machines are powerful enough to mimic any real
computer and, indeed, any conceivable machine that could rightly be called a
computer" This was said with respect to machines, but the question arises,
What did Mr.Cherniak mean by "human" Turing machine?
Mary Anne Vincent
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