On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:38 AM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Stathis, > do you think "Lucy" had the same (thinking?) hardware as you have? are you > negating (human and other) development (I evade 'evolution') as e.g. the > famous cases of mutation? Is all that R&D a reshuffling of what WAS already > knowable? > Maybe my agnosticism dictates different potentials at work from your > Idon'tknowwhat position, but in my belief system there is - beyond our > existing world-model - an "infinite complexity" of unknowable whoknowswhat-s > infiltrating into our knowable inventory in ways adjusted to our > capabilities. THAT I cannot assign to an algorithmic machine. > Then again you write: "UNIVERSE" - a word usually applied to our part of a > 'physical world' - not the Everything of which it may be part of. My > (assumed?) infinite complexity is not restricted to physical units of our > universe. > Accordingly I see some definitional discrepancy between our conclusions.
If the hardware and/or environment is different then the thinking may also be different. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
