We present a distinction between the human mind and a robot, mainly based on the presence or absence of a metalanguage. The human mind possesses both metalanguage and formal language (object language), which is a logic, while the robot possesses only the latter, which is provided as a program. The robot cannot use a metalanguage because the latter, devoid of logical rules, is not Turing-computable, and a computer cannot calculate what is incomputable. Metalanguage, which can be seen as the formal language of meta-thought (the thought that thinks of ordinary thought) allows the human mind to overcome the limits of purely mechanical reasoning. This is why a human mind can never be completely reduced to a Turing machine, and instead always will be a robot. Nevertheless, in the quantum case the hypothesis is made that during the programming phase, the programmers mind can become entangled with the quantum robot.
Minds and Robots: An Impassable Border
Pregnolato, Massimo
2021-01-01
Abstract
We present a distinction between the human mind and a robot, mainly based on the presence or absence of a metalanguage. The human mind possesses both metalanguage and formal language (object language), which is a logic, while the robot possesses only the latter, which is provided as a program. The robot cannot use a metalanguage because the latter, devoid of logical rules, is not Turing-computable, and a computer cannot calculate what is incomputable. Metalanguage, which can be seen as the formal language of meta-thought (the thought that thinks of ordinary thought) allows the human mind to overcome the limits of purely mechanical reasoning. This is why a human mind can never be completely reduced to a Turing machine, and instead always will be a robot. Nevertheless, in the quantum case the hypothesis is made that during the programming phase, the programmers mind can become entangled with the quantum robot.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
