On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Nich Del Evans wrote:
> I
> also agree that they can imitate recursion to an even more limited extent.
Well, if a computer program can manage to parse a deeply nested
sentence, I expect it could proceed to manipulate it with far more
ease than a human. e.g. if yo
On 2/12/2014 8:24 AM, Ørjan Johansen wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, omd wrote:
I'm somewhat skeptical of the word "organism".
If it has to be biological, then just say "human", there's no
guarantee hypothetical space aliens or AIs would be considered
organisms anyway. :)
[snip]
/me wonders whe
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:37 AM, omd wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Nicholas Evans wrote:
> > [An attempt at very simply tightening the restraints against attempting
> to
> > register things that cannot utilize language to communicate their own
> ideas.
> > While originating and comm
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, omd wrote:
I'm somewhat skeptical of the word "organism".
If it has to be biological, then just say "human", there's no
guarantee hypothetical space aliens or AIs would be considered
organisms anyway. :)
[snip]
/me wonders whether speculating about Tines is too silly for
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