Hi Bruno Marchal IMHO Digital devices can interface with living systems, but they must always ultimately be slaves to the self, the nonphysical governor (mind), just as the supreme monad (the All) is the governor of the universe. So transplant of a physical brain seems a bit impossible as of yet.
And rocks have no intelligence so are governed purely by physical laws. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/8/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-08, 05:35:00 Subject: Re: The poverty of computers On 07 Sep 2012, at 19:12, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Sep 7 2012, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > machines, even computers, IMHO in practice have no intellectual or feeling > facilities, are no more than dumb rocks. Computers may or may not have feelings but that is of no concern to us, if they don't it's their problem not ours; It might concerns you if the doctor intents to replace your brain by a digital device, or if your daughter want marry a man who did that. however those "dumb rocks" can and do outsmart us on a regular basis and the list of things they are superior at gets longer every day. The very title of this thread just screams whistling past the graveyard. > So there is no more communication with God possible than there would be with > an abacus. Now that I agree with 100%, computers are no better at talking to God than a abacus is. Indeed. Abacus are Turing universal, and so have the same ability than us (assuming comp). Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- 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.
