Stathis, do you think "Lucy" had the same (thinking?) hardware as you have? are you negating (human and other) development (I evade 'evolution') as e.g. the famous cases of mutation? Is all that R&D a reshuffling of what WAS already knowable? Maybe my agnosticism dictates different potentials at work from your Idon'tknowwhat position, but in my belief system there is - beyond our existing world-model - an "infinite complexity" of unknowable whoknowswhat-s infiltrating into our knowable inventory in ways adjusted to our capabilities. THAT I cannot assign to an algorithmic machine. Then again you write: "UNIVERSE" - a word usually applied to our part of a 'physical world' - not the Everything of which it may be part of. My (assumed?) infinite complexity is not restricted to physical units of our universe. Accordingly I see some definitional discrepancy between our conclusions.
John Mikes On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:08 AM, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Stathis: > > > > IMO you left out one difference in equating computer and human: the > > programmed comp. cannot exceed its hardwre - given content while > > (SOMEHOW???) a human mind receives additional information from parts > > 'unknown' (see the steps forward in cultural history of the sciences?) - > > accordingly a 'programmed' human may have resources beyond it's given > > "hardware" content. > > > > John M > > How can a human exceed his hardware? Everything he does must be due to > the hardware plus input from the environment, same as the computer, > same as everything else in the universe. > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
