Hi Craig Weinberg Everything has at least some intelligence or consciousness, according to Leibniz's metaphysics, even rocks. But these "bare naked monads" are essentially in deep, drugged sleep and darkness, or at best drunk. Leibniz called such a state the unconscious way before Freud and Jung.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 11/15/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-12, 09:54:53 Subject: Re: My embarassing misunderstanding of the intelligence of computers Doesn't mean that a coffee filter is intelligent too? If so, is a series of coffee filters more intelligent than one? What about one with a hole in it? Craig On Sunday, November 11, 2012 8:14:05 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi I was wrong. According to my own definition of intelligence-- that it is the ability of an entity, having at least some measure of free will, to make choices on its own (without outside help)-- a computer can have intelligence, and intelligence in no small measure. The ability to sort is an example. To give a simple example, a computer can sort information, just as Maxwell's Demon could, into two bins. Instead of temperature, it could just be a number. Numbers larger than A go into one bin, smaller than A go into another bin. It does it all on its own, using an "if" statement. Roger Clough, rcl...@verizon.net 11/11/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/4uRvNZH9oIsJ. 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.
