On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:47:35AM +0800, fooler wrote: > 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....
I don't think that being chemical in nature is the basis. All chemical reactions are the result of electromagnetic processes when you get down to it. The rearrangement of electrons in bonds is what causes chemical reactions. The true nature of what makes us human is much more complicated. If Turing is right and our brains are nothing more than extremely complicated Turing machines, then there is nothing *in principle* that could prevent a machine from thinking like a human. The only reason why they can't at the moment is that we still don't have the technology to make machines even one percent as complicated as a typical human brain, or even a monkey's brain for that matter. If you want an idea of how complicated the whole question of intelligence really is, try looking for Dr. Rodney Brooks's paper "Intelligence Without Reason", which should be somewhere here: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/papers/AIM-1293.pdf. -- 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
