Re: Why machines can't be alive

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Jason Resch Does the computer have the asbility to convert entropy into energy ? That's a fundamental requirement for life. I know of no life form that does this, unless you are viewing them going backwards

Re: Why machines can't be alive

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Ruquist
The current USA space-based ICBM defense system (on paper) consists of autonomous kill vehicles separately orbiting the earth (10,000 of them). Each KV decides if an *ICBM has launched and they divert from orbit to hit the ICBM before burn-out. Canavan and Teller in vented that system in