Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 16:50:56 03/16/01
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On March 16, 2001 at 16:01:38, Heiner Marxen wrote: >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. I would assume that there are certain things a human brain cannot do, but I can't think of an example...oops! That was it! ;-) > >Heiner
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