----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:25 PM Subject: Re: [plug] [OT] Chess computers to overtake humans in 2004
> 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. yes chemicals goes down to electromagnectic processes but the intelligence of a machine right now is only purely electrical components... its intelligence is only based on 1 and 0 (and extended to fuzzy logic)... its intelligence based on the input that you have given and its intelligence cannot be expand or improve to a new level because of the limited of set of rules that the machine learned... unlike us as humans, we have senses.. these senses are based on chemical components... our senses gave us to improve our intelligence.... for example... at birth, our intelligence is only limited to the environment of our mother womb and the inputs that our mother given to us... how do we improve our intelligence? the answer is chemical components... one good example is that... when we are a small kid, we intentionally touch a fire due to curiosity... we feel burnt (due to chemical reactions) and we understand that touching a fire is bad.... that is where we put more inputs on our intelligence due to chemical components.... and that is where humans intelligence is too complex due to chemical components... furthermore, humans cant think intelligently if he or she is hungry due to chemical components... so therefore humans realized that he or she must eat in order to be intelligent (which is another input to improve its intelligence) unlike with machines which is only purely electrical components... it doesnt need to eat to act intelligently.... but the machine intelligence is only limited to what is given to it.... 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
