On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:32 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/12/2014 11:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 12 Apr 2014, at 01:43, meekerdb wrote: > > On 4/11/2014 8:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > (2) create new race of beings, smarter and better than us, to explore > the universe. > > > This is what we do since the beginnings. We are them. The distinction > between artificial and natural is artificial. > > > I deliberately avoided writing 'artificial beings', but I think they will > be 'artificial' in the sense of being deliberately constructed as opposed > to developed just by Darwinian evolution. > > > OK. I thought so. That is artificial too, actually, and thus natural for > creature with some enough big ego, and which might not be completely wrong > in thinking that they have some partial control, indeed (thanks god!). > > "deliberately" involves "free-will". Some might argue if that is so > much deliberate, especially from some 3p big picture. Machines too have a > long history. Personally, I do agree that "deliberate" makes partial sense > from our person points of view. > > > Whatever you call it, it is different from Darwinian evolution. > Is it? I am looking around my living room, and all the objects I see seem to be extensions of my body. There's a box of paracetamol, a molecule that perfectly fits my biochemistry to stop making me feel headaches. There's headphones, that perfectly mach my human ears. There are human-sized chairs and tables, books, etc. The lamps emit light in the visible spectrum, to match the receptors in my retinas. >From gene to protein to cell to organ to organism to house to city... You can draw a line somewhere, but it feels a bit arbitrary. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
