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Dylan Evans [5]
Founder and CEO of Projection Point; Author, The Utopia Experiment
Evans' laws of the completeness of good old fashioned AI.

Evans' First Law

For every intelligent agent, there is a Turing-machine that provides an exhaustive description of its mind.

Evans' Second Law

When the Turing-machine that describes the mind of intelligent agent has been specified, there is nothing more to say about that mind, apart from how it is implemented in hardware.

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