Did the computer make choices? Or the program? Or did the programmer
make a program which allowed for variables and the computer simply
followed what it was told to do by the program which was told what to
do by the programmer?
Shalom
David Lind
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Struan Hellier wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 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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> "All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and
> purified in the process."
> (Iris Murdoch)
>
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