Hello Sally I just found the following quotation from Rai Gaita: "What could it mean for a machine to stand behind its words, for us to call upon it not to be...
... What do you (or Gaita) mean by "machines"? After all, the human brain is a complex piece of physical matter that can think. It is obvious that it is...
Arthur, I don't think any of us would dispute your contention that 'Machines have nothing to say', but does it follow that no machine could ever have something...
Hello Michael A 'machine' is taken to be what we normally mean by the term. It is a device designed and built by humans to serve some human purpose, such as...
Arthur, I don't disagree with what you are saying. And I like your view that a brain is not a machine because in itself a machine is inorganic. Can you...
Hello I think that there is a definable quality, not an undefinable quality, about human intelligence that cannot be replicated from non-organic components....
Arthur, Your response is not unlike Brandon A. Perron's position where he explores through his book 'The Quest for Truth' the questions of who I am, what I am ...
... That is not very helpful. "Machine" can refer to a waterwheel. It can also refer to a (putative) robot capable of self-modification and repair. Certain I...
Hi Kathleen, Great but difficult questions. My understanding of them: "Is perception reality?" By "perception" I'm assuming here that you mean our sensory ...
... have two different perceptions of the same event? What is reality? Dear Kathleen, In my opinion, what you perceive is not reality in the sense that it is...
In a message dated 12/2/2004 10:22:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, paul.clark12@... writes: << The question 'why am I?' seems to get closer to the nub of...
Hello Paul I'd like to say a couple of things, replying to both of the questions you ask. First - I don't believe that any machine can grow in the sense that a...
... Philosophers make too much of this question, I think. There are plenty of people who never bother to ask it, and while I think that they are boring, I...
phlogiston_head
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Dec 4, 2004 11:51 am
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Dear Sally, Thank you for your thoughtful response. This is a fun question, the chemists in the lab where I work discuss this question day after day, month...
... It seems to me possible a comlex machine could answer this question, if, for example it was programmed to 'know' why it was built. However, as you have...
dreamjesm
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Dec 4, 2004 4:44 pm
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Assume for a moment, if you will, there is some sort of hierarchy of entities. Or perhaps a spectrum of entities, if 'hierachy' sounds overly value-laden to...
keukagingergreen
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Dec 4, 2004 7:16 pm
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Brandon, I have thought long and hard about your and feel that now I am in a position to give a rational response; I await the shooting down in flames. 1. Are...
Hi, I haven't seen every post to this thread, so I apologise if I am making a point that has already been made more clearly than I am able, however, I do feel...
Nichola Woods
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Dec 4, 2004 11:13 pm
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Dear Sally, My reactions: "well then, why would God put Eve into the exact circumstances that would make her eat the apple?" Because he's an arsehole, or at...
Dear Massimo, "But what "work" would that sort of god do? Certainly your states of mind can't be responsible for creating the universe... " In what sense are...
Dear Nichola, Polite but brutal but concise answer :) I only differ in that I think of myself as a thinking chimp and its probabilities or turtles all the way...
" Assume for a moment, if you will, there is some sort of hierarchy of ... Okay, assumuption done. Leave "spectrum" v "hierarchy" undecided at present. ...
... I think being a psychotic is a matter of degree, rather than something that distinguishes "psychotics" from "normal people" in a qualitative sort of way. ...
... I am not sure if roaches actually perceive your coming. Their hearing organs have nerves wired directly into the nerves responsible for running. They...
... surely if there we such 'higher entities', there is no way we would be able to explain or percieve them to be anything them? But through sayin that we have...
dreamjesm
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Dec 5, 2004 9:37 am
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hi friend these days i m working on an idea about the scope of synonyms in linguistic.... do u have any personal opinin about it.... do reply on this email...
I like your question! I agree with Boley, but maybe we could alter the question. What if the hierachy was in bands. First band contains everything that is not...
Dear Kim This "First Cause" thing (as you mentioned the big bang). We learn that energy can't be created or destroyed. Therefore there has always been energy....
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