On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:10:19 +0200, Vincent Archer said:
> Emulating a human is very very different from making a sentience. That's
> the main flaw of the Turing's test: it attempts to prove the existence
> of human-type sentience, not sentience in general.
Douglas Adams understood this one - "So
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:41:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Given Moore's Law and the other rules of thumb regarding the progress of
> computer hardware it will be another 25 to 30 years before we match
> human capacity.
>
> Anyone who says they can achieve such in significantly less time
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:45:44AM -0700, Andrew Farmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2004, at 03:34, Michael Simpson wrote:
> >The brain is thought to have 40 to 100 GB storage per cell (several
> >trillion cells)
>
> Where are you getting "40 to 100 GB storage per cell"? I'm no
> neurolo
Yes, I realised that last night.
It is interesting, but I think in his attempt to disproove the
anology, he came up with a very comparable one.
The firewall at McDonalds.com seems to filter all data to all ports
other than port 80. You cant enter a McDonalds resteraunt through
anything but the d
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:15:04PM +0100, James Tucker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Apologies, please explain the lack of differences, I'm not getting them.
>
> Virtual:
> "The door" - Port 80 - Closed after connection attempt. You come back,
> it does the same, and then closes again. 404 Error n
