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So you think that humans have been evolved to perform emailing tasks? So what precursor did emailing evolve from and from that what came before that it's reasonable question. I could jump ahead an answer that what caused human beings to write and what caused us to evolve to do writing? I do not as yet see the cause-and-effect inherent in Darwinian evolution. -----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Nov 10, 2014 12:32 AM Subject: Re: Are We Really Conscious? (NYT Article today) <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_ef8e9c34-bfa8-44cc-b954-710882800c2e" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On 11/9/2014 5:22 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > If we are not conscious, then our personalities, or personalities, similar to > ourselves, > would be childs play to create. All we need to do is copy the functions of > the cerebrum, > cerebellum, the amgdyla, and the medula oblongata, and hocus pocus, we'd have > a working > copy of David's mind. But we haven't and there must be a reason why? > Obviously, the task > is more daunting, and harder to achieve than first thought at the start of > academic AI > studies. What have we missed? There's no evidence we've "missed" something. The human brain is much more complicated than any attempt we've made to replicate it. And if we did replicate it, it would probably be no more intelligent than a new born. Which means we'd not only have to replicate the learning functions but also the emotional factors which come as much from the body as the brain. And then we'd have to stimulate it and wait for it to learn. > If we are not conscious, then why post to the everything mailing list? Have > we been > programmed to do this? ?? What does "programmed" have to do with it. Presumably we evolved to do what we do, which is somewhat more vague than a program. 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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. Visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list"; target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list</a>. For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout"; target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>. </tt></pre> <!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_ef8e9c34-bfa8-44cc-b954-710882800c2e --> </div> -- 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.
