From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Wed Sep 25 1996 - 22:04:16 MDT
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 Lyle Burkhead <LYBRHED@delphi.com> Wrote:
>Any system, nano or macro, capable of creating a pipeline,
>will contain within it many human-level intelligences.
A modern microprocessor is very complex, yet we can manufacture millions of
them in automated factories. Human judgment is not involved whenever one
logic gate needs to be connected to another, very dumb automatic process do
it for us, that's the beauty of technology and that's why each employee is
enormously more efficient now than he was in past centuries. If we needed
millions of pipelines we would find a way to mass produce them too, but we
don't we only need a few so each time we build one we must design one too.
We design a microprocessor only once, then we can stamp out millions of them.
We know for sure that it's possible to manufacture extremely complex objects,
like human beings, in a process that needs no intelligence in the construction
process at all; it only needs the correct digital information (messenger RNA),
energy (ATP) and simple raw materials (amino acids). There is no reason we
can't make a machine that does as well or better than natures machine, unless
you think life has some mystical vital force that we could never presume to
understand.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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