On Jun 4, 11:50 pm, Torgny Tholerus <tor....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Tom Caylor skrev:
>
> > I think that IF a computer were conscious (I don't believe it is
> > possible), then the way we could know it is conscious would not be by
> > interviewing it with questions and looking for the "right" answers.
> > We could know it is conscious if the computer, on its own, started
> > asking US (or other computers) questions about what it was
> > experiencing. Perhaps it would saying things like, "Sometimes I get
> > this strange and wonderful feeling that I am "special" in some way. I
> > feel that what I am doing really is significant to the course of
> > history, that I am in some story." Or perhaps, "Sometimes I wish that
> > I could find out whether what I am doing is somehow significant, that
> > I am not just a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing is not
> > 'meaningless'."
>
> public static void main(String[] a) {
>
> println("Sometimes I get this strange and wonderful feeling");
> println("that I am 'special' in some way.");
> println("I feel that what I am doing really is significant");
> println("to the course of history, that I am in some story.");
> println("Sometimes I wish that I could find out whether what");
> println("I am doing is somehow significant, that I am not just");
> println("a duplicatable thing, and that what I am doing");
> println("is not 'meaningless'.");
>
> }
>
> You can make more complicated programs, that is not so obvious, by
> "genetic programming". But it will take rather long time. The nature
> had to work for over a billion years to make the human beings. But with
> genetic programming you will succeed already after only a million
> years. Then you will have a program that is equally conscious as you are.
>
> --
> Torgny Tholerus
You guys are hopeless. ;)
Tom
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Received on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 14:23:37 PDT