... Well I agree that mechanistic explanations are preferable. I might even argue that anything less is not an explanation at all. The problem is, as far as I...
... And what is the problem with that? More specifically what is your definition of intelligence? Making a car analogy, I would say that being "more ...
... Hi George: Here is how I responded to Fred Martin as to my definition of intelligent system: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy/message/15453...
... I don't see why we have to have an axiom of choise. Computers seem to work ok without one. (If your answer is that computers don't have and cannot have ...
... George: Keep in mind that I'm make no claim either way, whether we make choices or don't. My only claim is if we wish to speak of intelligent system then...
... <john_j_gagne@...> wrote: Re: Religion ... What other kinds of explanations are there apart from mechanical or make believe explanations? ... Choice means...
... "Explanations" provide and imply understanding. Axioms/postulates/assumption are (should be) intuitively understood. While these are not "explanations"...
... I mean "mere mechanism" in the truly robotic sense, whereby the complete behavior and nature of a thing can be known. I take it as axiomatic that there are...
Link to text version http://tinyurl.com/5n2czz Google video (fast forward about halfway): http://tinyurl.com/5b6pfe Stars: Douglas Hofstadter (as himself) ...
Yeah, that was some delicious food for thought. :) The brain-in-a-vat concept was interesting. The question "where is he?" is better posed as "to which...
... Well, clearly Dan Dennett is asking our indulgence throughout this entire fantastic tale. While it might be difficult to imagine the details of the...
... This might have been unclear but when I say "We could ask a different question", I just mean that Dennett never talks about qualia anywhere in "Where am...
Wow. That's a really neat argument! Ummm. When you prove to certain philosophers that some questions they study don't actually matter, then they 're likely...
... I think qualia is the heart of the matter, since qualia is the only thing we can actually be certain about -- everything else, including the experiments we...
... Thanks. ... ;o) nice... but: None of these objectives would be my intent. My intent is simply to try to establish a working philosophy of computation which...
I finally understand what the Lord was telling me. This is so cool I am truly sorry, for your sake, that you can't appreciate the moment, even if only for my...
... Notre père, qui êtes aux cieux, reste la. On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Jim Bromer wrote: I finally understand what the Lord was telling me. This is so...
... It took me awhile but: "I finally understand what (Michael) was telling me. This is so cool I am truly sorry, for your sake, that you can't appreciate the...
... Ray Gardener suggested that I should inject a bit more humor to keep things interesting. The funny truth is I had no idea when I quoted this that I was...
I had an interesting thought, given the maximization of meaning, to reinterpret the Lord's Prayer: Our Father, which art in heaven, ... the maximization of...
Oh irony, verily... for I asked not to be able to do what the gods do, but merely to understand them. But even that, it seems, requires us mere mortals to...
... Brad Pitt: "Let me tell you a secret, something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any...
Q. Should lie detectors be admissible evidence of guilt or innocence? A. No! There is no such thing as lie detectors! Why? Because there is certainly no such...
An interesting possibility is that, if all the mechanical aspects of the brain can be duplicated in prosthetics, that a fully monitored society can be...
... We live in different galaxies. ... Define crime. ... God help if the social mob defines what is to be happy. ... ...for the monitored. Think a world...
The AI Mind in Win32Forth free online for robots at http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/mind4th.html has just been updated with a KB-traversal feature that...
... No, don't be sorry. This is exactly the type of scrutiny that makes speculation even better. I lean towards a higher form of consciousness -- hypermind --...
... In such a system how would you even define "crime"? The problem is you say "fully monitored" & "Every thought can be recorded, transmitted, reviewed,...
... No, that's a reasonable concern. If such a thing came about, it would need to happen gradually and start small. There would come a day where you hear that...
