On 2/25/2013 12:04 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Sunday, February 24, 2013 11:01:07 PM UTC-5, stathisp wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com
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wrote:
You'll forgive me if I don't jump at the chance to shell out $51.96 for 300+ pages
It's only $20 (including shipping) from other sellers listed on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0195166191/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
of the same warmed over cog-sci behaviorism-cum-functionalism that I
have been
hearing from everyone.
Well since you don't want to read the book because you already know all the answers, why
don't you stop reading this mailing list. Actually I get the impression that you never
have read it.
The preview includes a couple of pages that tell me all that I need to
know: (p.22)
'Building in self-representaiton and value, with the goal of
constructing a
system that could have feelings, will result in a robot that also has
the
capacity for emotions and complex social behavior.'
No, it won't. And a simulation of water won't make plants grow.
You present no argument, just prejudice.
My argument is that he makes an arbitrary assertion.
How do you know it's arbitrary. He wrote/edited a whole book on the subject - and you
(who have never presented anything but unsupported assertions) accuse him of an arbitrary
assertion because he doesn't make a complete argument in /one sentence/ in the introduction!
Brent
What the author is saying is really not much different from "If you say the incantation
with the right intention, it *will* result in a demon summoning."
Craig
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