building AI: never with consciousness (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 17:58 (3468 days ago) @ David Turell


> > > The brain is not a computer. The mind is not its software."
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> > Tony: This is very true. Even though there are some mechanical similarities, for every one thing that is similar there are a hundred more that are completely different.
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> Even a summa cum laude game programmer cannot produce a computer program that gives a computer a mind.-Game Designer, and no, I couldnt. I do recognize that it IS designed, though. There is entirely too much 'purpose' in the way it is all put together and the way it all works for it to be random. That level of cohesion and organization does not happen by chance.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.