From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 18:04:23 EST
Ian wrote: > A more > philosophical point is that, according to the Church-Turing thesis, the > reduction of human mental activity to the simplest operations has been > achieved, which completes Babbage's program. The Church-Turing thesis is > informally the hypothesis that all human mental activity is replicable by a > particular class of machines, of which an ordinary personal computer is a > finite example. This means that all mental labour can in principle be > automated. The Church-Turing thesis, evidently, assumes that all human mental activity is expressed through formal logic. This is a very dubious proposition. (btw, will machine dialogue at some point in time replace OPE-L and other forums for the discussion of political economy, Ian?) Paul C wrote: > This raises the question of whether the law of value would > still operate were the church turing principle to be taken to > its limit. (it's de ja vu' ... all over again) At the limit, v would equal -0- since there would be no wage- labour employed by capital. No wage-labour, no capitalism. Not capitalism, but another mode of production perhaps .... In solidarity, Jerry
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