(December 5, 2014 at 7:52 am)Heywood Wrote:So, if I write a computer program (X) that is capable of encoding it's own sub realities, does that make computer program (X) intelligent?(December 5, 2014 at 12:32 am)IATIA Wrote: If I create a 'sub reality' does that necessarily infer that it is intelligent?You can create a sub reality that has no potential for the emergence of intelligence. If you did that sub reality could not be a parent of its own sub reality. It would be a dead end.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
