Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Right! > > > > ---------------------------------------- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: Platonism vs Realism WAS: ROADMAP (well, not yet really... >>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:18:18 +0200 >> >> >>Hi, >> >>Le Dimanche 20 Août 2006 05:17, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit : >> >>>Peter Jones writes (quoting SP): >>> >>>>>What about an inputless computer program, running deterministically >>>>>like a recording. Would that count as a program at all, >>>> >>>>It would be a trivial case. >>> >>>Trivial does not mean false. >> >>It seems to me that the set of inputless programs contains the set of >>programs >>which have inputs. Because a program which have inputs could be written as >>the following inputless program : >> >>|HARDCODED INPUT||CODE| >> >>The resulting program is input less but the "substructure" denominated CODE >>here is not inputless, it takes the hardcoded input. >> >>So in any case I don't see why inputless program should be "trivial case". >> >>Regards, >>Quentin
I thought the question was not about computation, but whether a program was intelligent or conscious. I think that intelligence means being able to respond to a variety of differenet inputs. So above |CODE| might be intelligent but not the overall inputless program. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
