Am Mo, 26. Apr 2021, um 10:49, schrieb John Clark:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 4:29 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> *> It is quite easy, I think, to define a program that "remembers" (stores 
>> and later retrieves ( information.*
> 
> I agree. And for an emotion like pain write a program such that the closer 
> the number in the X register comes to the integer P the more computational 
> resources will be devoted to changing that number, and if it ever actually 
> equals P then the program should stop doing everything else and do nothing 
> but try to change that number to something far enough away from P until it's 
> no longer an urgent matter and the program can again do things that have 
> nothing to do with P.

If you truly believe this is the case, then it follows that anyone writing such 
a program and subjecting it to X=P should be considered guilty of torture. Do 
you agree?

Telmo

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