[ExI] Do digital computers feel?

[John Clark]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I guess the keyword here is "digital."


​For over 50 years our digital computers have been able to do things that
analog computers can't, ​

​but we haven't found anything a analog computer can do that a digital
computer can't. ​

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> I am most certainly a computer(a system that computes its behavior
> according to physical laws), and
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> I most certainly feel. Ergo, computers feel. It remains to be seen if
> our current concept of "digital" computer can accommodate feelings.
>

​No, it remains to be seen when computers will behave as intelligently as
humans. I will never know for certain if computers have feelings just as I
will never know for certain if you have feelings, even though you just
generated the following digital ASCII sequence "I most certainly feel". I
have generated similar digital ASCII sequences myself but in my case they
represent unquestionable universal truth while the truth or falsehood of
your digital sequence will forever remain unknown.

  John K Clark

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