Bhairitu, It's debatable to say that humans are machines, although some people call humans as biological machines.
A few days ago, I posted a video clip of Tom Campbell who states that the universe is a virtual reality. He backs this up by using the results of the famous double-slit experiment in physics. But he believes that Consciousness is the main computer that makes this virtual reality possible. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Human being are machines too, just not the familiar wires and microchips. Consciousness is probably just an artifact of the operating system. On 06/27/2015 07:45 AM, Duveyoung wrote: The word "know" makes this a primal question. My answer: no. New question: can a human nervous system know ethics? My answer: no. The ego lies to itself. IT IS NOT SENTIENT. It is a process. An artifact of a vastness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> mailto:anartaxius@... wrote : Of course we can. The query to be answered is whether it is worth the computing time and the bother of implementation. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> mailto:jr_esq@... wrote : One machine said NO...which is correct. It's database was based on movie scripts. But if the database included philosophical and ethics discussions, the machine could have gotten the correct answer from those discussions. Even if it got the correct answer, the machine still does not know what it said. Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Prog... Machine is asked to define morality, gets annoyed when it can't. View on blogs.wsj.com Preview by Yahoo
