From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2002 - 04:37:35 GMT
> As near as I can tell, computers only pass memes from humans to other
> humans. They pass the encoded message from computer to computer, but
> so far the computers don't get the message, they just pass it. Only
> humans understand it. The day the computer understands the message is
> the day we'd better get ready to pass the baton and let the new kid
> take over.
>
Not only do the computers not understand it, they also did not create it.
It was inputted to the computers by human interfacers. Wade is right
about this point; only when computers begin to demonstrate
authentically creative behavior can we begin to contemplate granting
that they might be experiencing self-aware states.
>
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