On 14 Aug 2012, at 17:47, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
You say, "a non living computer can supported a living self-
developing life form"
Do you mean support instead of supported ? Or what do you mean ?
I mean "support". Sorry.
I meant that some fixed hardware computer can emulate a virtual self-
modifying version of itself, so that your point is not valid.
If not you introduce a notion of living matter leading to an infinite
regression. It might have a solution, but it beg the question of comp/
non-comp, and you are just saying (without arguing) that machines
cannot think, and that souls are substantial actual infinities.
Bruno
Roger , rclo...@verizon.net
8/14/2012
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Subject: Re: Definitions of intelligence possibly useful to
computers inAIordescribing life
On 11 Aug 2012, at 13:07, Roger wrote:
Hi Russell Standish
When I "gave in" to the AI point of view that computers can posess
intelligence,
I had overlooked the world of experience, which is not
quantitative. Only
living things can experience the world.
You are right. But a non living computer can supported a living self-
developing life form, unless you postulate that infinitely complex
substances are at play in the mind.
Bruno
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