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Aneirin -> RE: to build a human brain..... and kill the soul? (7/27/2009 5:27:31 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GotSteel
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
It always interested me that the electronic componentry that is in artifical intelligence devices, is made up of the same elements and minerals that nature is, and for that matter, us.
Last I checked we weren't made of silicon.
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
Maybe it is the fact that animal life has another thing in it that so far scientists are unable to isolate, understand, prove and there recreate is the difference between artificial intelligence and natural intelligence. That thing called, the spirit, soul, prana and a myriad of other names across the world, through culture and through history, is the difference, without it, you just have a machine.
No, the difference between animals and computers (I don't want to use the word machines because we are all machines) other than being made of meat is that animals are intelligent and computers are not. It has nothing to do with the soul, faeries, unicorns or any other imaginary thing.
What, no silicon, it itself being the second most abundant mineral in the earth's crust, is an essential mineral to biology, though, in trace forms, called trace minerals. But what of other minerals used within the electronic industry, such minerals as iron, zinc, copper, selenium, manganese, magnesium, cobalt, and whatever others, all are major or trace minerals within the body and required by the body. Sure we have silicon 'chips', integrated circuits made of silicon, but even in this integrated circuit age, we still use discreet components, resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, inductors etc and what are they made of, nothing less than minerals, often the same minerals that are in biology and by that, life on earth.
But until there is proof or disproof of the existence of something else that is within life on earth, the existence of a soul or whatever is common to people. A thing perhaps noted and mentioned thousands of years ago by speculators or even knowledgeable people, no way are we to assume the intellect of the past to be wrong, until we can prove it and even then understand their findings in the context of their understanding. Maybe it is, we who some believe to be of superior intellect and understanding are only here isn this age because of the findings and understandings of the past speculators.
We may be masters of machines and tools, but are we masters of the mind, we employ our minds to make better and better machines even machines to take the place of the mind, make everything happen for us, and when that is achieved, what is left for us, where is our quest for machines going, what is the end result.
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