Thanks Stephen, for the warning. I guess the onus is on the author to
not sound like a crank!
By the way, all the ligatures in your quote below displayed as a space
in my email reader, so it doubled the effect :(.
Cheers
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:27:04AM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Hi Ronald!
>
>My first impression of this paper is that it is yet another
> attempt to reify the doctrine of dialectical materialism, then I
> wondered if the paper was the output of a science-word-salad-izer
> but reading further I saw some gems:
>
> "Another implication of the current proposal is that there can be no
> self-aware mecha-
> nized artificial intelligence no matter how advanced the technology
> becomes, since biological
> intelligence is evolved as part of inter-connected universal
> evolution. A mechanical com-
> puter’s CPU will never acquire free will, since it will never be
> able to establish the infinite
> multitude of connections with the rest of the universe environment,
> as manifested in the
> entanglement of the phases of the wave-functions (the Aharonov-Bohm
> effect). However,
> entities formed through semi-biological pathways such as cloning are
> possible because they
> tap into nature’s established pathways to establish these infinite
> connections."
>
>As my kids would say: OMG! LOL! /facepalm
>
>I would like to agree in principle with Zhang but I am not sure
> that s/he is not a Chinese Room!
>
> Onward!
>
> Stephen
>
> PS, thanks for posting this reference
>
>
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