On 3/14/2019 5:54 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 3:40 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
And with a world outside that brain for the word to reference.
Brent
John K Clark
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