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Combinatorial explosion makes the machine impossible

Programming the machine to engage in an hour long Turing test is impossible, because it would give rise to a "combinatorial explosion". The programmer would have to code more strings than there are particles in the universe.



Argument anticipated by Ned Block, 1981.
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