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originally posted by: benrl
To put it in a physical form, enough networked computers, with enough data, with the proper programming, would be able to give rise to an observable intelligence, etc.
originally posted by: pleasethink
originally posted by: benrl
To put it in a physical form, enough networked computers, with enough data, with the proper programming, would be able to give rise to an observable intelligence, etc.
This really wouldn't make sense in a human understanding unless all of us were connected as well. Humans possess consciousness from birth. Where does the data come from? Also, consciousness is not just intelligence, but self awareness and contemplativeness. The internet already possesses almost all things ever learned by man. But would you call it conscious?
Thanks for the explanation.
originally posted by: sk0rpi0n
Consciousness...self awareness...ability to think abstractly...question our existenc...are neither physical in nature nor a property of physical matter, as many people claim. The scientists referred to in the OP, operated within the assumption that it is, and naturally ended up with a conclusion that fit the premise they confined themselves to when they started their research.
but quantum
originally posted by: sk0rpi0n
I read an interesting book where the author compared the self aware human to an electronic device that works as long as there is electricity running through it. His point was that just as the electricity is completely different from the device, as opposed to being a propery or nature of the device.... The physical body works (is alive) as a result of an external energy that is not physical and is seperate from the body. Basically this energy is the life force that produces consciousness. Without that energy, we are dead bodies.
the connection between science and sprituality astounds me.
i can see how it all connects and understand it but i have a very hard time explaining it or documenting it on paper.