On 27 Apr 1998 13:40:35 GMT, patrick at gryphon.psych.ox.ac.uk (Patrick
Juola) wrote:
>Oh, I'm disagreeing, vehemently. We *have* evolving computers, we
>*have* computers (or at least multi-cpu networks) with greater storage
>capacity and comparable complexity to the human brain, and that's
>not produced anything that appears in any way conscious. The
>argument that "evolving systems," "tinker-able systems" or any
>such is just another attempt to insert a ghost-in-the-machine through
>a process that the writer doesn't understand, even though many other
>scientists may understand quite weill.
I think you mean "Kurt Weill" (my 3 cents).
--
Jer
"If you meet the buddha, kill the buddha."
Lin-chi (dead)