On Feb 9, 9:49 am, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/2/9 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>
> > > > How does a gear or lever have an opinion? > > > > The problems with gears and levers is dumbness. > > > Does putting a billion gears and levers together in an arrangement > > make them less dumb? Does it start having opinions at some point? > > Does putting a billions neurons together in an arrangement make them less > dumb ? Does it start having opinions at some point ? No, because neurons are living organisms in the first place, not gears. A billion dead neurons doesn't makes something that can have an opinion either, but living neurons either have opinions or sense/ motives which scale up to opinions. No amount of gear motives scale up to opinions. There is no 'they' to a gear, because humans have cast them mechanically in molds to act as gears for our sense/motives. Innately they are not gears, but metal molecules in solid form. Their sense/motive is to respond to temperature, force, acceleration, etc in a relatively uniform fashion which does not scale up to being a living organism. Craig -- 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.
