Real Deletion, Time, and Possibility

Abstract: Does anything ever really “go away,” completely? This paper is a search for “real deletion,” and the metaphysics that must accompany real deletion. Why important? In artificial intelligence studies, researchers have offered moving target when has been achieved. It began with Turing test evolved through thousand arguments (e.g., Dreyfuss’ What Computers Can’t Do, Kurzweil’s “singularity” into hundred other criteria thousands of discussions about what it would mean to simulate or, as I favor, emulate it). whole discussion still just sorting analogies human intelligence, not approaching thing itself, but good approach much more than analogous function: they indiscernibility. My here will therefore be largely in field ontology, which how understand word “real” phrase deletion.” do think current rightly understood time bears upon criterion or. intelligence. Hence, offer sense described, criterion. The AI argument implications all relates fundamental character time.