[Magnus] You seem to think that a computer is just a means for storage, like a paper, but it's much more than that. I don't think you can deny that.
[Arlo] Sure, its much more complex in terms of how we can program it to function. [Magnus] Explain in terms of the levels. Point to the stuff in a computer and say which is which. How hard could it be? [Arlo] As easy as one could do for a book. I can point to the pages and say they are composed of inorganic patterns such as ink and dye and dead trees. I could point to the symbols displayed in ink and say they are intellectual patterns being stored there for transmissive or archival purposes. [Magnus] A computer is much more than storage. It can experience intellectual patterns. Not dynamically, but statically. [Arlo] There is no such thing as "static experience". Experience is the "now moment", it is the moment of Dynamic Quality. "Static" is what we see as the preferred response of the organism to its environment. A computer can respond to experience with the repertoire of responses made possible by its inorganic composition. It can not respond biologically, socially or intellectually. (At least none can yet). [Magnus] And the levels are static, so a static intellectual experience of a computer is just as real as the same intellectual experience of a human. [Arlo] A computer does not experience the patterns it stores "intellectually" any more than a book experiences the patterns stored on its pages. Does a DVD player "experience" the social and intellectual patterns of the movies it plays? [Magnus] I mean that a computer's ability to do that is analogous to a human's ability to do it, it's just the dynamic influence that is completely absent in a computer. [Arlo] Experience does not happen absent the immediate moment of Dynamic Quality. "Static" is simply the aggregate patterns of preference emanating from this "event". 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/md/archives.html
