[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Adrian Tymes]

On Jan 9, 2014 4:12 PM, "Kelly Anderson" <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't preprogram enough to do what humans do.

Agreed, assuming that stuff learned and (more importantly) ways to react
that are learned after the initial setup do not count as preprogrammed,
even if the mechanism by which they were learned was.

That said, it is possible to claim that all reactions were preprogrammed,
that the data for how to react was in fact inside the
(person/computer/whatever) all along.  Some people have done this, often in
individual attempts to inspire ("See?  You knew how to do it!") or to
dehumanize ("They aren't people; they're just machines that look like
people.").
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