Re: Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists.

2013-12-07 Thread LizR
On 8 December 2013 02:03, Roger Clough wrote: > > 7. Intelligence is the ability to autonomously make choices. > This means that computers, since they can only do what is > given to them from outside by a programmer, > can have no true intelligence. Actual artificial intelligence is >

Re: Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists.

2013-12-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 07 Dec 2013, at 14:03, Roger Clough wrote: Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists. 1. There are two forms of knowledge: a) knowledge by acquaintance, such as you have met Obama, and b) knowledge by description, such as you have been told that Obama is

Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists.

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
Some basic principles of mind - a wakeup call for materialists. 1. There are two forms of knowledge: a) knowledge by acquaintance, such as you have met Obama, and b) knowledge by description, such as you have been told that Obama is president of the USA. 2. Knowledge by acquaintance is