On Tue, May 7, 2013 , Gordon <<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> How wonderful. Someone wrote some code that simulated a neuron.<br></blockquote><br> Yes, I would say that is very wonderful indeed.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> I've actually already done something like that<br></blockquote><br>And I can write code that causes a computer to experience pain, it tries to avoid having a certain number in one of its registers regardless of what sort of input the machine receives, and if that number does show up in that register then the machine will stop whatever its doing and immediately change it to another number.<br>
<br>Emotion is easy but intelligence is hard.<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> My digital computer is just an ordinary mechanical machine, not fundamentally different from my watch.<br>
</blockquote><br>Gordon, perhaps you believe that if you repeat something often enough it becomes true, but you do have a annoying habit of just stating what you're attempting to prove. <br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> My watch tells me the time, but I think it has no idea what time it is. Do you think it does?<br></blockquote><br>Who the hell knows, how could I tell if it did? For that matter how can I tell if Gordon Swobe knows what time it is?<br>
<br> John K Clark <br> <br>