LIz, Good one! Thanks for the chuckles!
Best, Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:01:38 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 15 January 2014 14:51, freqflyer07281972 > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:24:31 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: >>> >>> Jason, >>> >>> There are no 'synthetic neurons' that could replace biological ones "one >>> by one". When there are let me know and I'll check them out and answer >>> your question. >>> >>> You are letting your imagination run wild here imagining things with no >>> basis in reality as if they were true. When we study reality we study what >>> is actually true, not sci fi no matter how 'cool' it's thought to be.... >>> >>> http://metabiological.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/first-synthetic-neuron-created/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.princeton.edu/pccmeducation/undergrad/reu/researchprojects/REU2008Presentations/duseja-richardson.pdf >>> >>> http://www.neurotechreports.com/pages/hybrids.html >>> >>> >>> http://www.dvice.com/2012-12-2/worlds-most-complex-artificial-brain-ever-passes-iq-tests >>> >>> This is too easy... >>> >>> Does Edgar have a higher difficulty setting? >>> >> > I would like to have a few words with whoever programmed him. > > His artifical nature is given away by his literal mindedness, his > repetition of canned responses, and his inability to understand how a > theory can be supported or undermined by a thought experiment. I guess > programming an autodidactic monomaniacal sociopath is easier than a real > person, but even so it's a pretty impressive achievement. And setting it > loose on the Everything list ... someone is laughing up their sleeve > somewhere! Doug Hofstadter, I'm looking at you!! > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
