
Episode 11: The Turing Principle and Artificial General Intelligence
The Theory of Anything
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The Difference Between Accepting the Turing Principle and Falsifying It
There's a big difference between taking accepting the Turing principle saying okay look it is our best scientific theory therefore i'm going to tend to be accepted until someone comes along with a better theory for me to accept and simply taking a position that has nothing backing it at all. We can conjecture that absolutely everything ever discovered by the physical sciences can be broken down into computations but we know of no exceptions right? So what we're really doing here though is we're asserting the computational nature of reality, which scientists almost always just assume in science.
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