On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
From: Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net
God can be thought of as cosmic intelligence
And if humans are the only intelligence in the cosmos (and they might be)
then the human race is God.
or life itself.
If as you say
that everything could function.
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Time: 2012-09-04, 10:20:44
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Two reasons why computers IMHO cannot exhibit intelligence
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
God created the human race.
And when God asks Himself the question Why have I always existed, why
haven't I always not existed? what answer in his omniscience does He come
up with?
God is the uncreated infinite intelligence
There
Hi John Clark
God can be thought of as cosmic intelligence or life itself.
As to what he can do, there are some limitations
in the world he created, for that world is contingent
and so contains some missing pieces, misfits, defects, all of that stuff.
Crap happens.
Roger Clough,
Hi John Clark
JOHN: That implies that you CAN think of a way that a bunch of cells in your
skull squirting out neurotransmitter chemicals can produce subjectivity. What
is that way, what vital ingredient does a? neurotransmitter chemical in a brain
have that a electron in a chip does not
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
what vital ingredient does a neurotransmitter chemical in a brain have
that a electron in a chip does not have?
ROGER: Life.
Yes life, I was afraid you might say that. It may interest you to know that
the Latin word for Life is
Hi John Clark
No, presumably each software program is different.
So the machine is still controlled in various ways by the programmer.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
8/30/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function.
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From: William R. Buckley
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Time: 2012-08-29, 13:22:31
Subject: RE: Re: Re: Two reasons why computers IMHO cannot exhibit intelligence
Roger:
It is my contention, quite to the dislike of biologists generally methinks,
that DNA
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Time: 2012-08-29, 16:27:17
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Two reasons why computers IMHO cannot exhibit intelligence
What is DNA if not software?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net
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Hi Richard Ruquist
IMHO software alone cannot create life, because life is subjective.
So
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Time: 2012-08-28, 09:39:09
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Two reasons why computers IMHO cannot exhibit intelligence
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi Stathis Papaioannou
Yes, hardware and software cannot feel anything because
Hi Stathis Papaioannou \
Good point. The argument fails.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
8/29/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function.
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Hi Richard Ruquist
Pre-ordained is a religious position
And we aren't controlled by software.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
8/29/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function.
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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Roger Clough
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Hi Richard Ruquist
Pre-ordained is a religious position
And we aren't controlled by software
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:22:38 PM UTC-4, William R. Buckley wrote:
Cells are indeed controlled by software (as represented in wetware form –
i.e. DNA).
It isn't really clear exactly what controls what in a living cell. I can
say that cars are controlled by traffic signals,
What is DNA if not software?
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi Richard Ruquist
Pre-ordained is a religious position
And we aren't controlled by software.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
8/29/2012
Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi Stathis Papaioannou
Yes, hardware and software cannot feel anything because there
is no subject to actually feel anything. There is no I , as in
I feel that, there is only sensors and reactive mechanisms.
A computer
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