[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-28 Thread bob_brigante
But scientists are worried, nonetheless of the future possibilities of machines. http://www.thelocal.se/19120.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-27 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: John wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think, therefore I am. But scientists are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-27 Thread TurquoiseB
Unchallenged (that is, assumed as true without even citing a source for them) assumptions in John's posts this morning on the possibilities of machine consciouness: * Consciousness is much more complicated than what you propose. The entity in question should be able to distin- guish and choose

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-27 Thread Bhairitu
John wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: John wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think, therefore I am. But

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-27 Thread WillyTex
TurquoiseB wrote: His view was that if the design were good enough, there would be no way that a cybernetic organism could tell itself from a human organism... Actually, in Phillip K. Dick's world, the humans couldn't tell the difference between replicants and themselves. Replicants already

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-27 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: John wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: John wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread dhamiltony2k5
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think, therefore I am. But scientists are worried, nonetheless of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony2k5@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread davidpalmer108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think, therefore I am. But scientists are worried, nonetheless of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:51 PM, davidpalmer108 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread nablusoss1008
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: HH the Dalai Lama... This lama is now presenting himself as His Highness ? Or is this simply the fantasies of the Vaj ? If he is so high, why can't he free Tibet even after all these years ? Probably because he is nothing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread Vaj
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:15 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: HH the Dalai Lama... This lama is now presenting himself as His Highness ? Or is this simply the fantasies of the Vaj ? His Holiness. He's been known as that for many

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, davidpalmer108 davidpalmer...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:51 PM, davidpalmer108 wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can Machines Develop Consciousness?

2009-07-26 Thread John
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: John wrote: To All: Machines can play chess, and compute equations in nanoseconds. But at the present state of technology, it can't think and understand the meaning of, I think, therefore I am. But scientists are