Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA11559 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:04:07 GMT From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> Organization: Reborn Technology To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Yes, but will there still be memes? Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:32:18 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <005a01bf959e$c3d2b280$03000004@r2z3h3> Message-Id: <00032413360400.00603@faichney> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Tyger wrote:
>Raymond O. Recchia wrote:
>Sounds like a serious lecture. The head of Sun Micro and
>> Douglas Hofstader. So what happens to the memes when humanity is
>> replaced by robots that think like humans?
>
>T: if indeed those AI systems will THINK LIKE HUMANS, why should anything
>happen to the memes, they (the memes) will simply keep on replicating ,
>using hardware instead of wetware..
The question being, why on earth would AI systems want to think like humans?
Or: why would they want to think?
Or: why would they want (anything)?
I think each of these questions merits serious discussion, but I'm not sure
this is the most appropriate forum for it.
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