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To clive: Have you used a chainsaw? the only useful component of it after the power is gone is that you can chuck it... You can't "use it as a hacksaw." And how would that even help? "As you're att...
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Agreed... You really don't have time to slow down for the punchline. Although they would probably relieve tension while you are immersed in grime and gore, it goes back to rule 6- Travel light... I...
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"I think therefore I am" was the heading of an entire philosophical dissertation upon the fact that the only thing that one can verify the existence of is, in fact, oneself. There had been a school of thought at that time who had postulated that even this was impossible to verify, but the dissertation proved it through dialectics.
As we are not computers (or at least not verifiably so), we can not even begin to prove sentient thought. There is a test, however, where a human examiner questions two people through an e-mail system. When the human examiner is unable to differentiate between a computer test subject and a human test subject, the computer system is deemed "a strong AI."
There are two list of goals for the computer; one that is attainable at this time, and another that is part of what makes us human. The first list has items like reason, knowledge, planning, learning, communicion in natural language, and integration.
The second list has such items as consciousness (to have subjective experience and thought), self-awareness (to be aware of oneself as a separate individual), sentience (the ability to "feel"), sapience (the capacity for wisdom), and innovation.
So really, "I think, therefore I am" doesn't really apply to computers; which "think" does it mean? The "think" that I feel Descartes is referring to is the interior feeling of computation that arises from the human consciousness. Anyway, tell me what you think.
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