(November 18, 2012 at 7:16 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:If I program a computer guided robot to sort through rocks tumbling down a small stream and to pick up and drop the rocks that weight between 600 and 650 grams, it would be deciding. I would not be deciding as I would have never seen or evaluated the rocks coming down the stream. The robot would be doing the deciding. Thus the robot would have a soul in it's kidney too. (Wonder why I said Kidney?)(November 18, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Brakeman Wrote: So could a computer controlled robot "decide" to drop the rock?
Humans are nothing more than a very sophisticated electro chemical robot. We can be very predictable, we just have so many contributing factors that it is difficult to predict. Break us down to the cellular level and we are exceedingly easy to predict.
The computer controlled robot would be analogous to the lever in the rock/lever/fulcrum graphic shown earlier.
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