[Zen] Re: News: Enlightened Robots?

2011-03-04 Thread Bill!
Edgar, No, not 'enlightened' robots - finite-state (digital) processing robots who are 'self-aware'. When they start seriously working again with analog processing to emulate human thinking I'll start taking more notice. ...Bill! --- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Edgar Owen edgarowen@...

Re: [Zen] Re: News: Enlightened Robots?

2011-03-04 Thread Chris Austin-Lane
I just read a good sci-fi book exploring how that might start to happen, Zendegi, by Greg Egan. The end up with the maxim: If you want to make it human, make it whole. Apparently there really is a Human Connectome Project trying to make a digital map of the brian. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at