Hello Robert.
>
> So it seems to me that there is a tricky
> little detail we do not understand very well about "calculable by a
> human being with intelligence" entailing "calculable by a machine (or an
> ideal machine)".--There seems to be something that needs to be said
> about when a machine can calculate what we can calculate, calculate
> what we can calculate but of course not _as_ we would calculate [it].
> (Only metaphorically do machines "follow rules" and perceive as we
> perceive/observe, as in observing the course of a calculation.)
>
> Robert Tragesser
> West(Running)Brook, Conn. 06498
>
My intuition is that we can always encode the rules in a machine
to reflect our perceceptions and observations.
I think it is only human vanity that makes us worry if we are less
capable than a machine. I fully expect that eventually machines
will be so close to human intelligence that we will not be able to
distinguish machine intelligence from human intelligence, except
possibly by the machine appearing to be more intelligent. :)