Tom Caylor skrev: > > I think that IF a computer were conscious (I don't believe it is > possible), then the way we could know it is conscious would not be by > interviewing it with questions and looking for the "right" answers. > We could know it is conscious if the computer, on its own, started > asking US (or other computers) questions about what it was > experiencing. Perhaps it would saying things like, "Sometimes I get > this strange and wonderful feeling that I am "special" in some way. I > feel that what I am doing really is significant to the course of > history, that I am in some story." Or perhaps, "Sometimes I wish that > I could find out whether what I am doing is somehow significant, that > I am not just a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing is not > 'meaningless'." > public static void main(String[] a) {
println("Sometimes I get this strange and wonderful feeling"); println("that I am 'special' in some way."); println("I feel that what I am doing really is significant"); println("to the course of history, that I am in some story."); println("Sometimes I wish that I could find out whether what"); println("I am doing is somehow significant, that I am not just"); println("a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing"); println("is not 'meaningless'."); } You can make more complicated programs, that is not so obvious, by "genetic programming". But it will take rather long time. The nature had to work for over a billion years to make the human beings. But with genetic programming you will succeed already after only a million years. Then you will have a program that is equally conscious as you are. -- Torgny Tholerus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---