----- Original Message ----- From: "Pablo Manalastas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:02 AM Subject: [plug] [OT] Chess computers to overtake humans in 2004
> I guess this has long been expected. The question is > should this worry us humans? Will there come a time > when machines are the masters, and humans the slaves? > (a la Matrix?) it is still depends on the human... they are the ones who created these machines.... if they want to program machines to be self-learning to survive and wanted to dominate all the living creatures in the universe... then it can be done... machines right now are only purely electrical components while humans have both electrical and chemical components... machines dont have *instinct* because they lack of chemical components... machines dont know how to fell in love because they lack of chemical components... machines dont know how to masturbate because they lack of chemical components... when time comes when human knows how to integrate both electrical and chemical components in a machine... then it is no longer called a machine but a clone to humans or man-made humans.... fooler. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
