/That's of the most important question, Buck. Obviously a machine doesn't have any "soul", because it is a material object. Humans on the other hand, are said to have a "soul" or "spirit" that enables individual human "self-consciousness"./
Quoting "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>:
Fine, but could Google's computer's algorithmic intelligence host a soul like happens spiritually in the carbon form of a human being?
/So, the question is: does man have a soul or spirit? //For Transcendental Idealists this question isn't complicated: consciousness itself is the soul of man - it is the Ultimate Reality. There is no higher awareness than being self-conscious. Without consciousness you would not even exist; without consciousness, none of this would exist./
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : When intelligence becomes intelligent consciousness becomes conscious.. Would you think Google could pull off self-referral consciousness or just algorithmic intelligence? It depends what you mean by "self referral". If a computer could see and hear and respond independently of it's programming to the world then it what way is it not conscious like us? Even seeing and hearing are limited, we perceive very little of our surroundings. A computer based intelligence might be aware far beyond what we are capable of and think us puny because of it. And they are already working on programmes that can improve themselves, this takes "self referral" to another level does it not? What I'm getting at is that we have this opinion that we are special simply by virtue of our ability to ponder the matter. But we could be designing something so much more impressive in our terms than what nature did for us. But first we have to understand ourselves - that's the tricky bit. But not impossible because we are things made of stuff. Or we could bypass human mimicry and build something innately superior in every way. Exciting times. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Brain upgrades on the way at the very least... it's like we actually want to make ourselves obsolete! Google a step closer to developing machines with human-like intelligence
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence
Google a step closer to developing machines with...
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/21/google-a-step-closer-to-developing-machines-with-human-like-intelligence An algorithm developed by Google is designed to encode thought, which could lead to computers with ‘common sense’ within a decade, says leading AI
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