I can think of 4 points against drones. The first is ethical or moral. We are moving towards the view that it is Ok to kill, as long as you do it at a...
I think you are getting caught up in words. First you say that ... "Thinking is the object of a thinking subject". Then you redefine "subject" and "object"...
I suppose it depends upon what you mean by "mainframe". I gave an answer, but if that doesn't work, you have to tell me what you mean. "So how can we be...
Some years ago I predicted that robots,drones, would turn the tide of battle in the war on terrorism. I think we can say they have been highly instrumental in...
Let me rephrase the last sentence. Thinking is the object of a thinking subject. This is the problem of phenomenology: consciousness studying itself, a...
Bill, I see how your group of specialists reduced risk for both themselves, each other, and their patients. The advantage of having practitioners as members of...
I mean that the instruments which measure brain activity and which inform us about how and what our brains are doing are themselves products of our thinking....
I would take it that the "mainframe" is everything other than the brain. It is the stuff to which we are connected. Like the computer in your car is ...
The mainframe into which each brain is connected is the brain itself? Can you clarify, since it seems you are not describing the mainframe into which all...
Mary, I now also check the "junk mail". There are a lot of automatic reflexes. For example, touching a hot pan would produce an automatic reaction to pull...
... I was always fearful of killing a patient. As time went on dentistry became a more multidiciplinary effort. The old days of just having a do it all dentist...
Bill, This is interesting because an argument for a speculated gums-heart connection occurred to me as an example of interconnectedness. Do statistics show...
eduard, Yahoo sends a portion of our group e-mails into the spam folder; it's a flawed system. Sorry, if I'm repeating myself, but biochemical algorithms are...
In January the house and senate will be in session five days,in February they will meet eleven days. White House sources say the administration will probably...
There is a Chinese magician or is it a magician who was doing a trick in China .. can't recall. He had this trick of passing a $10 bill through a window. I...
I seriously doubt that the functioning of the kidney can rival that of the brain. Yes a dead kidney leads to a dead brain, but then so will a scratch on your...
Mary, Sorry, this one went to my junk mail and I only found it today. Algorithms are mental scripts. They play out in a fashion to give a result. It may well...
A deeper understanding of various individual systems can lead to a wider understanding of the cosmic system.My Ecology professor was a botanist but knew...
If Dick can communicate? [ In existlist@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" wrote: If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the...
In nature, systems evolve or follow basic laws like a galaxy system. A natural system might be considered intelligent in the sense that it decides what will...
Depends upon what you mean by an ecosystem. If you mean a system to get rid of waste in an ecological appropriate fashion ... instead of throwing stuff into...
If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the power of love and intelligence as the defining attributes of the new...
Does a system design itself? Is each part intelligent? Does a brain merely perceive systems or does it influence them, and does the system influence the brain?...
