(November 19, 2012 at 12:11 am)Lion IRC Wrote: 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.
A robot is programmed for a task, not for life. If you tried to program a robot to live a complete life and somehow succeeded, would not this robot be so complicated that we could not predict what it would do next with accuracy? Also, about not being able to predict human action...there is this.
