On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 10:58 -0800, cletusjenkins wrote: > Exactly what factoid do you know that could possibly prevent computers > as complex and powerful as a human brain
Emotions! Intuition! Self-doubts! Creativity! Consciousness! Desire to live! Scientific curiosity! I could continue this list! FWIW my idols in the childhood were Joseph Weizenbaum and Marvin Minski and I early started experimenting with AI/simulation of human intelligence. Computers can do a lot, but they are crap compared to humans. I don't know how smart aliens are, since I never met some. But as Jimi Hendrix once sung in the song "UFO" (Dantes), analogously "it's only important that we love Rock'n'Roll". Computers can't feel Rock'n'Roll because Computers can't feel abasement, lovelorn, rage ... they are as cold as ice. _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
