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Philosophy

tiny elvis

(979 posts)

12. i do

Reply to rhett o rick (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 01:56 AM

Feb 2014

computation machines have no will
they are not self sustaining
even if our will and awareness were mechanical,
we cannot reproduce their functions
neither will our adding machines become willful by accident

do your own mechanically reducible functions, your senses and thought,
make up the whole of your self?

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Can we discuss the Technological Singularity here (and the movie "Her")? It's philosophical. [View all] rhett o rick Feb 2014 OP

Yes we can. I just had a vision of a post-singularity world after reading this. CJCRANE Feb 2014 #1

That's your vision of life after the singularity? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #2

*SPOILER* In William Gibson's "Neuromancer" CJCRANE Feb 2014 #3

I have, in part, used "Neuromancer" to influence my image of what will happen rhett o rick Feb 2014 #4

The stage just before the singularity is also interesting... CJCRANE Feb 2014 #9

Noam Chomsky: The Singularity is Science Fiction! bananas Feb 2014 #5

Do you agree with Chomsky? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #6

i do tiny elvis Feb 2014 #12

It there no one that wants to discuss the singularity? nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #7

There isn't much traffic in this forum by the looks of it. CJCRANE Feb 2014 #10

Yeah I agree. nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #11

Kick rhett o rick Feb 2014 #8