> d) you keep repeating the illusion that evolution did NOT achieve the > airplane and other machines - oh yes, it did - your central illusion here is > that machines are independent species. They're not. They are EXTENSIONS of > human beings, and don't work without human beings attached. Manifestly > evolution has taken several stages to perfect tool/machine-using species - > of whom we are only the latest version - I refer you to my good colleague, > the tool-using-and-creating Caledonian crow.
That is purely rhetorical gamesmanship... By that interpretation of "achieved by evolution" then any AGI that we create will also be achieved by evolution, due to being created by humans that were achieved by evolution, right? So, by this definition, the concept of "achieved by evolution" makes no useful distinctions among AGI designs... And: a wheel does work without a human attached, btw .. ben ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=95818715-a78a9b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
