[Jos] My thoughts are, that you cant ask a computer a question in English/Program language and necessarily expect to get an answer from the emergent consciousness that may reside, more likely what your going to get is a dumb linear response based on your own prior inputs, which as I say is analogous to the biological level of the conscoiusness responding. You'd just be poking its flesh seeing the skin turn red.
My suggestion would be to look at the interractions between seperate machines, perhaps scan the total electrical taffic that goes between them and analyse the patterns present. I expect that with a reverse engineering approach of everything present, methodically subtracting the known user applied elements from the overall noise, you could look for emergent overlaid patterns that are unassociated with defined programs. Its the "ghost in the machine" that you'd be looking for, but annoyingly I think the computing power required to accurately scan and digitally map electromagnetic noise to the required detail and at the required rate would be the same or greater as/than would be required in applying the same methodology to a human brain. [Krimel] An interesting speculation and an interesting approach but as you indicate, unlikely to be tried. I guess we will just have to sit it out and wait for them to decide to talk to us and then we always have the Turing test to fall back on... 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/
