> The point of the mind recipe is that we specify a complex machine M with a name of the form, say, “Seed your randomizer with the number 1946, create an initial population of a million random programs, and evolve the population through a billion generations, using the mutation and crossover genetic operators, and gauging fitness according to the following specific tests: answer the enclosed quizzes on the following books and movies, do better than the other programs at
the following list of games, score well in the programs’ mutual rankings of each other, etc.” And this name can be transpa…