[ExI] The digital nature of brains

Gordon Swobe gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 5 14:35:44 UTC 2010


--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might say "no, the amoeba and this behaviour is too simple". Yet 
> it's from compounding such simple behaviours that we get human level 
> intelligence. 

I do not care how the computer behaves. Does it have conscious understanding of the meaning of the word by virtue of having associated it with an image file of the object represented by the word? I think you know the answer.

-gts



      



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