Thanks Stephen, for the warning. I guess the onus is on the author to not sound like a crank!
By the way, all the ligatures in your quote below displayed as a space in my email reader, so it doubled the effect :(. Cheers On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:27:04AM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Hi Ronald! > > My first impression of this paper is that it is yet another > attempt to reify the doctrine of dialectical materialism, then I > wondered if the paper was the output of a science-word-salad-izer > but reading further I saw some gems: > > "Another implication of the current proposal is that there can be no > self-aware mecha- > nized artificial intelligence no matter how advanced the technology > becomes, since biological > intelligence is evolved as part of inter-connected universal > evolution. A mechanical com- > puter’s CPU will never acquire free will, since it will never be > able to establish the infinite > multitude of connections with the rest of the universe environment, > as manifested in the > entanglement of the phases of the wave-functions (the Aharonov-Bohm > effect). However, > entities formed through semi-biological pathways such as cloning are > possible because they > tap into nature’s established pathways to establish these infinite > connections." > > As my kids would say: OMG! LOL! /facepalm > > I would like to agree in principle with Zhang but I am not sure > that s/he is not a Chinese Room! > > Onward! > > Stephen > > PS, thanks for posting this reference > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
