On Sat, 24 May 2003 21:03:01 -0500, will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2003.05.24 07:50 John Hebert wrote: >> Agreed. My perception was that the scene was meant to remind us how we >> are different from machines, as the sex scene was juxtaposed with the >> big rave dance scenes in slow motion. Machines (AI) don't|can't >> experience ecstasy. > > I don't think he really left the Matrix. That's why he was able to > "feel" the squids. Zion looks more like this to me: > > http://rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/rodin/essay.html > > Every link is broken, but there are images and essays in the directory > that you can read. Oh, I also hope that the author's friends don't look > like the people in Rodin's hell. > > If machines become intelligent, they must feel. Without emotion there is > no reason to make a choice and a machine that can't make choices is not > intelligent. Why is reason sufficient for intelligence? You open up some pretty large vistas for discussion here, and I definitely want to discuss them fully, but let's start small: GnuChess regularly kicks my ass by making choices, without "feeling" I assume, about how to move chess pieces. Please explain how this works based on your observation in the above paragraph. -- John Hebert System Engineer I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com
