Tom McCabe wrote: > If you want to refute an argument, it is your > responsibility to explain what is wrong with it. It's > this concept called "burden of proof". If you refuse > to provide evidence for your arguments, you simply > lose.
> - Tom That only works when both sides are similar in education. To everybody else: Your comments were fairly good for the most part or at least reflected a fairly substantial education. A few of these comments seemed to be based on a confusion between the relatively linear progression of natural evolution versus being one transistor shy of a working computer, a profoundly non-linear case... Or in the world of radios, we now have the germanium diode, now all we need is to coil up some wire and make a few connections and we'll have a radio.... The most interesting comments had to do with the connection between a system which can perceive and a system which can act, think, immagine etc... Some of the arguments were rather silly... We don't need to create a universal creativity engine, we only need to achieve human parity. I know people want to see problems Solved, but something which is workable and useful beats the hell out of nothing at all... Unfortunately, to really address those questions I'd need a much more intensive medium of communication, such as an in-person meeting and a big whiteboard... -- Opera: Sing it loud! :o( )>-< ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=27826445-b3c0ec
