[Ham] Leave it to an objectivist to put technology before metaphysical truth. Dreyfus is right, of course. A machine, regardless of how complex or sophisticated its design and processing capability, is not a cognizant being. The notion that Science will eventually produce a conscious machine overlooks the fact that intelligence is information, not consciousness. You
can no more put consciousness into an electro-mechanical device than you can transform it into a living organism. I am appalled that such illogical thinking surfaces in a purportedly "enlightened" philosophy forum, let alone the AI community. [Krimel] I would have let this hammerheaded rubbish pass but you called me an "objectivist." I mostly let the labels pass but when you call me a Randian, them's fightin' words. You are the devotee of that horse crap, not me. As for the "substance" of what you say I would call it slightly on the runny side. Would you care to start a list of impossible things that science has made common place? You Luddites never learn. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
