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I agree with you. Also, I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too. I believe (another belief ;p ) that theoretically machines can be as intelligent as human considering that were both bound by the same limits. But I'm no AI expert as my post will probably prove. IANAAIE

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> I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too.

Math has started, quite a while ago, to show that we are already probing some sort of inherent limits of knowledge for the human mind.

> theoretically machines can be as intelligent as human

Intelligence is the easy problem. It's just a function of complexity after all. It's consciousness / awareness that's harder, more important and more interesting.

Are you suggesting that the human brain may be capable of non-Turing computing (hypercomputation)? I certainly don't agree with that.

not sure about hypercomputation but Godel did try to prove that humans had intuition something that would allow them to somehow go beyond the limitation of his incompleteness theorem. Of course he did go crazy thinking about all this and he never did finish his proof about intuition. I personally don't believe it's possible. Humans are as limited as machines.

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