Soldiers and killbots: a love story

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Ryan @ May 10th 2007 11:13PM

You're thinking too small. CURRENT computer designs can't develop and think, but I can guarantee that we'll see computer designs that can change and develop in much the same way that a human brain does.

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Thursday @ May 10th 2007 11:27PM

It is not the design of the computer I fault, it is the programing. There are quite a few other reasons that AI will never achieve sentience, but most of them involve quite a bit of symbolic logic. The simple truth is, the Human mind is unique, Socrates knew it, Plato knew it, Aristotle Knew it, Aquinas Knew it, Spinoza Knew it, and Descartes knew it. I can pile an infinite number of stones together, give it a jolt of electricity, and they will never think. If they did, the whole would be more than the sum of it's parts. There is something else, something "other" that must be there. Observation tells us there is nothing "missing" from a dead body, but reason tells us there must be.
I could go one for pages about this, but I think I'll save it for a term paper.
~G

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