On 1/23/2013 5:53 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
I guess you are serious, but I can't imagine how you can actually believe that. You think that you turn the Mars rover on and there is some entity there which has an expectation about 'Mars' or Earth. It really doesn't. There is no entity there
So you repeat, ad nauseum.
- just a collection of probes and logic circuits. Without humans to interpret the data coming out of it, it would be obvious that it is as unconscious as a stone.
No it wouldn't. It has nothing to do with 'the data coming out'. It knows about Mars because it can navigate on Mars and accomplish things on Mars (which is more than you can do) and anybody watching it would conclude that.
Brent -- 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.
