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Humans have an infinite capacity machines lack

Unlike deterministic automata, persons might be in an infinite number of states within a finite period of time. Such an infinite capacity could allow persons to make decisions that machines could never make.

Selmer Bringsjord, 1992.

Note: Bringsjord is discussing a possible, rather than an actual, human capacity.

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