You thought it was just a spandrel? :-) On 11 November 2014 09:36, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > 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) > > > 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 [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. > -- 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.
