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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An interesting topic. I just have to add something
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MSNNonUserImageOrEmoticon="true">. I've seen several most astonishing thoughts
about this. The feeling process in us, if I may call it that, is due to very
complex phenomena in our brain and all through the body. Be it chemical or
electrical in nature. (Next year I'll learn a lot more about some of them...) If
you think of it like that, it is just a mass of currents running through the
body, quite chaotic. To understand these would mean a new beginning in science,
quite evidently. Now, to build them into computers seems dubious to me. Would it
really be beneficial? As for humans, I consider emotions an inseparable part of
our self and seen from this angle it is not a chaos but a mass of currents which
direct us right into the unknown (quite philosophic, yuck). For example,
love just grabs one by the throat and turns them over. Should a computer be
exposed to that? Or how about depression? These are mostly due to the presence
or absence of certain chemicals in the brain (and body), as I gather. (Though
you can control emotions and thus the amount of these chems through
rational thought...I could say so much about that :D) Now, provided we get to
know the exact nature of feelings in our system, how would that be simulated?
Because if I think of a silicon or whatever computer, I just can't think of
anything other than pure simulation. Would that be the same? I think such a
computer is of less use than the effort put into making it. And yet somehow
human thought, however rational, always has a certain emotional background to it
(if we want humanlike AI). After so much talk I come back to my beloved
future model, collective consciousness. If plausible, aided by a certain
intelligence enhancement, wouldn't that be the best solution (to become
posthuman but still remain human in nature)? Please comment on that, I'd be so
interested to hear your opinion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thomas Pardy</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>