> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a message dated 3/4/2002 12:07:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> By 2015 a typical Beowulf supercomputer will probably process at the same > bitrate as the human mind. It will be some while after that before A.I. > technology develops significantly to give the computers intelligent > activity. > I have said this before and I have no idea whether it is true or not but: Damaso in his book "The Feeling of What Happens" indicates that consciousness requires sensory imput and that machines lacking bodies will not be conscious in the sense that we are; they are unlikely to achieve an "intentional stance" and therefore will display what we would call intelligence. -- You are undoubted right, up to a point. Isn't 2/3 of the brain devoted to image processing? That is the easiest sensory input to replicate, and to a certain extent they are already doing it (somewhat) with all this new face-recognition software everywhere. The next would be auditory which probably farther ahead then visual. What's left? We can tell temperature pretty easily. Balance is harder (then again segway's just came out). Pressure is harder, but still easily doable. That really only leaves a few, smell/taste/pain/etc.
