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To: Heartlander

I don’t think consciousness can be anything but human.


3 posted on 02/18/2015 6:01:03 AM PST by Misterioso (The messiah isn't coming. He won't even call.)
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To: Misterioso

The theory was nice, but needs revisions, a recent computer broke it, but it was interesting to think of a test that for years, worked in proving that a computer was limited as to how it could reason based on its given instructions.


5 posted on 02/18/2015 6:04:14 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Misterioso

And, divine, and perhaps also a capability of higher animals. Somehow my cats seem to be more than computers, if less than men.

The thing that machines cannot do, I posit, is to desire.


10 posted on 02/18/2015 6:31:58 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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