Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 13:01:38 03/16/01
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On March 15, 2001 at 00:37:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >I have discussed this matter a number of times, only to understand that it is >impossible to talk about this with most people. In the end it always revolves >around the fear that a machine could "think", or other unrational worries. > >So most of the time the discussion is pointless. That's extremely frustrating. >At one point you say "but imagine this..." and the guy you are talking to >obviously cannot imagine, or does not want to. Sadly enough, that matches my experience with this topic. An example: one person (knowledgable and intelligent) I talked to had no problem with the concept that some machine might be unable to perform a certain task, but he would absolutely not admit that the human thought process might also be unable to do some task. That the human brain has all capabilities and no non-capabilities appears to often be an absolute axiom. Heiner
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