RE: My dumbass parents doubt evolution
November 19, 2012 at 12:11 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2012 at 12:26 am by Lion IRC.)
(November 18, 2012 at 10:16 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(November 18, 2012 at 7:16 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: The computer controlled robot would be analogous to the lever in the rock/lever/fulcrum graphic shown earlier.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?)
Is the man ''programmed'' to lift the rock in the same predictable way as your (binary - yes/no) kidney stone -robot? A robot which has either a yes or no forced response.
Either the stone weighs between 600-650 or it doesnt. The robot can't even decide whether a 599.99 gram stone is practically OK to use. It has to obey the program to the exact decimal place.
If a computer program acts unpredictably customers complain and IT folk get blamed.