LIz, Good one! Thanks for the chuckles!
Best, Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:01:38 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 15 January 2014 14:51, freqflyer07281972 > <thismind...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:24:31 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: >>> >>> Jason, >>> >>> There are no 'synthetic neurons' that could replace biological ones "one >>> by one". When there are let me know and I'll check them out and answer >>> your question. >>> >>> You are letting your imagination run wild here imagining things with no >>> basis in reality as if they were true. When we study reality we study what >>> is actually true, not sci fi no matter how 'cool' it's thought to be.... >>> >>> http://metabiological.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/first-synthetic-neuron-created/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.princeton.edu/pccmeducation/undergrad/reu/researchprojects/REU2008Presentations/duseja-richardson.pdf >>> >>> http://www.neurotechreports.com/pages/hybrids.html >>> >>> >>> http://www.dvice.com/2012-12-2/worlds-most-complex-artificial-brain-ever-passes-iq-tests >>> >>> This is too easy... >>> >>> Does Edgar have a higher difficulty setting? >>> >> > I would like to have a few words with whoever programmed him. > > His artifical nature is given away by his literal mindedness, his > repetition of canned responses, and his inability to understand how a > theory can be supported or undermined by a thought experiment. I guess > programming an autodidactic monomaniacal sociopath is easier than a real > person, but even so it's a pretty impressive achievement. And setting it > loose on the Everything list ... someone is laughing up their sleeve > somewhere! Doug Hofstadter, I'm looking at you!! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
