On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:40 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote:
> *> We may even have robots that can sit and talk with us about current > events, know everything in Wikipedia, etc. How "creative" they will be is > an open question. * > I don't think it's a open question at all. I can state without reservation that regardless of how intelligent computers become they will *never* be creative because the word "creative" now means whatever computers aren't good at. Yet. And thus due to Moore's Law and improved programing the meaning of the word constantly changes. What was creative yesterday isn't creative today. *> On mathematics: Of course mathematics changes, because it is a type of > language, and languages change.* > If mathematics is just a language (as I think it is) then it can not be used to construct things, in particular it can't, by itself without the use of matter, construct a Turing Machine as Bruno claims it can. English is also a language but an English word has no meaning without an English speaker with a physical brain to hear it. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
