On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think he falls into the same camp as Fred Hoyle - someone who manages > to get something completely wrong >
Fred Hoyle's Steady State Theory started out as a perfectly respectable scientific idea, it turned out to be false but that's OK, it happens to the best of us. On the other hand Searle's ideas were never scientific and were clearly idiotic from day one. Hoyle's real error was in continuing to support Steady State long after new evidence made it clear that is was not true; and Hoyle had other ideas that verged on the crackpot. But to be fair Hoyle is also the guy who figured out how supernovas produced all the natural elements except for Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron. And Fred Hoyle also wrote some of the best science fiction novels I've ever seen, especially "The Black Cloud". Unlike Hoyle as far as I know Searle has never done anything worthwhile. > whatever a computer does is "just" the movement of electrons around > circuits > And whatever a human brain does is "just" the movement of molecules and ions around neurons. That word "just" sure covers a lot! If that proves a computer can't be conscious then it also proves that humans aren't conscious; and except for me maybe that's the case. 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
