Re: [singularity] QUESTION

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Richard, If it's not too lengthy and unwieldy to answer, or give a general sense as to why yourself and various researchers think so... Why is it that in the same e-mail you can make the statement so confidently that ego or sense of selfhood is not something

[singularity] CONSCIOUSNESS

2007-10-23 Thread albert medina
Dear Sir, Pardon me for intruding. As you said, the divergent viewpoints on AI, AGI, SYNBIO, NANO are all over the map and that the future is looking more like an uncontrolled experiment. I would like to posit a supplementary viewpoint for you to contemplate, one that may support

Re: [singularity] CONSCIOUSNESS

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
albert medina wrote: Dear Sir, Pardon me for intruding. As you said, the divergent viewpoints on AI, AGI, SYNBIO, NANO are all over the map and that the future is looking more like an uncontrolled experiment. I believe it is not an uncontrolled experiment, because most of the divergent

Re: [singularity] QUESTION

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
Matt Mahoney wrote: --- Richard Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nonsense: the result of giving way to science fiction fantasies instead of thinking through the ACTUAL course of events. If the first one is benign, the scenario below will be impossible, and if the first one is not

RE: [singularity] QUESTION

2007-10-23 Thread candice schuster
Richard, Thank you for your response. I have read your other posts and understand what 'the story' is so to speak. I understand where you are coming from and when I talk about evolution therioes this is not to throw a 'stick in the wheel' so to speak, it is to think with a universal mind.

RE: [singularity] QUESTION

2007-10-23 Thread YOST Andrew
Candice and others, Here's a wild idea: Simply because we are here and processing information in ways that make us believe we are contemplating why we are here contemplating the purpose of life and the universe logically implies that the energy/mass system from which we have been assembled

Bright Green Tomorrow [WAS Re: [singularity] QUESTION]

2007-10-23 Thread Richard Loosemore
candice schuster wrote: Richard, Thank you for your response. I have read your other posts and understand what 'the story' is so to speak. I understand where you are coming from and when I talk about evolution therioes this is not to throw a 'stick in the wheel' so to speak, it is to