I guess in the statement "computers make choice" it was meant: free will
and able to take decision out of nowhere. In the case of your defrag. it
didn't. the codes are making tests to see if the HD needs a full or quick,
and according to the results of this probe, different actions are being
done. This is a simple algorithm that doesn't need choice making
intervention. There is no choice, but just execution of line codes.
Aloha,
-rv,
> Computers do make choices, jc, and it is here that your assertion fails. Simple
>example. I told my
> computer to defragment my hard disk. It assessed the situation and decided that the
>best course of
> action was to perform a full defragment rather than a quick defragment. The computer
>program made
> the choice and carried out the action, not I.
>
> Unless you can show that choice to be qualitatively different to human choice (and
>you haven't) then
> you are the one 'blowing smoke,' matey boy.
>
> Struan
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