# Once the Mind Is Specified Only Its Hardware Remains by Dylan Evans > “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.” > **— Dylan Evans**, *2004 Edge Annual Question, response passage* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [Evans' laws of the completeness of good old fashioned AI. — Dylan Evans](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10564) — a verbatim passage from Dylan Evans's 2004 Annual Question response, expressing the author's position at the time. The linked response supplies its surrounding context. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2004 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2004-129). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Computational Theory|Computational Theory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “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.” — Dylan Evans, 2004 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dylan-evans-once-mind-specified-only-its ```