Perhaps I am wrong, but I have a problem with the concept of artificial intelligence and hence artificial life-- at least according to my understanding of what intelligence is.
As I see it, intelligence is the ability to make choices completely on one's own. Autonomously. Thus intelligence is simply self-determination of some issue. By self-determination I don't mean free will, athough that might be a possibility.The "self" could use anything in memory, (including current perceptions or awareness) or even anything ever thought of. Darwin tells us that such choices must be mostly appropriate choices, but sometimes they might occur mistakenly, sometimes irrationally, or deceptively. That is, to lie, deception being quite common in nature. But a computer program can only make choices that the programmer previously allowed. So in effect the choices are made by the computer programmer, The programmer is the puppet master.. But such a programmed "robot" cannot be conscious, for there is no self to be aware. There is only the presence of electrical signals, which are objective, but no subjectivity. . Thus one might "simulate" life, but one can never create life in a computer. Materialism has the same fatal defect, for it is completely objective, and so cannot have a self, which is subjective, to be aware. On Sunday, July 22, 2012 11:52:18 AM UTC-4, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > This is great news for Bruno! ;-) > > I was interested in the computational complexity factor involved. > > > > http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/21/big-leap-in-bio-engineering-scientists-simulate-an-entire-organism-in-software-for-the-first-time-ever/ > > > > -- > Onward! > > Stephen > > "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." > ~ Francis Bacon > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/-c-OLZ3z8PMJ. 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.
