--- John Ku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Kurzweil on certain points. I think any intelligent life would > have evolved with very similar evolutionary pressures and thus share broad > similarities in their motivations (e.g. creativity, pursuing knowledge for > its own sake, probably something like the emotions that ground morality > (e.g. > care, guilt, resentment, etc -- which by the way I think grounds moral > truths once you add a general deliberative capacity, but I can go into those > philosophical arguments/my dissertation later if people are interested), > wanting to control the external environment and put it to use to pursue > knowledge).
Such a narrow view. Other intelligences must be like us because we can't imagine anything else? A post Singularity intelligence could be as advanced over humans as humans are over bacteria. How could a bacteria in your gut say that humans don't exist? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=11983
