From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 08:37:36 MST
In a message dated 12/2/99 9:34:54 AM Central Standard Time, rhanson@gmu.edu
writes:
> But it is not that easy to objectively decide
> which things in the universe are "computers," nor to decide
> which programs if run would "feel." Even rocks compute
> something.
Have you read Moravec's "Robot"? The last part of his book trips out into
just this very question.
(Somebody stop me! I'm posting in a "qualia" thread!)
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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