Journal Marxist Hacker 42's Journal: How to drive the New Atheists entirely insane 13
Suggest that free will exists and will never be able to be duplicated in an artificial intelligence. 69 replies to my sub-thread.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
"New Atheists" (Score:1)
Are they different from the old ones?
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Near as I can tell, stupider and more redundant. I can replace a new atheist with a pseudorandom number generator and a set of e-books from certain scientists who think that they are also philosophers, without being worthy of the term.
How very meat centric of you (Score:2)
So what exactly sets our wetware apart?
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Soul.
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Care to define this for me :-)
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Soul is Software, wetware is hardware
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You are confusing me. If you define soul as software, than it should be able to run on other plattforms as well, not only wetware.
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Silicon isn't compatible.
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So what physical attribute then makes our wetware so different?
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No physical attribute, but human beings are not purely physical (if you were, you wouldn't be able to create anything). Of course, neither is a computer, but a computer isn't programmed to have a soul either- a computer is a tool, nothing more, and we're a LONG way from granting free will to even a dog, let alone a computer.
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What about computers programmed to learn from the environment? There internal attributes are not directly accessible and decodable to the programmers, i.e. you can't be entirely certain what the computer will do until it does it.
These artificial neural networks are of course on the level of primitive organisms, but the bio-mimicry so far did not reveal anything special about the neural wetware that it was copied from.
How to drive the New Atheists entirely insane (Score:2)