On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:23:44 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > > *> *Wouldn’t Simulated Intelligence be a more appropriate term than >> Artificial Intelligence? >> > > Yes that euphemism could have advantages, it might make the last human > being feel a little better about himself just before the Jupiter Brain > outsmarted him and sent him into oblivion forever. >
Then we had better destroy every circuit on Earth to prevent that from happening. > > >> > By calling it artificial, we also emphasize a kind of obsolete notion >> of natural vs man-made as categories of origin. >> > > What on earth is obsolete about the natural verses man-made dichotomy? The > Jupiter brain really was the product of a intelligent designer while the > human being was not. > But the intelligent designer was the product of nature. It's a seamless continuum, unless you think that human beings came from some other metaphysical universe which is unnatural. Craig > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
