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originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: sputniksteve
People here on ATS always seem to have this problem... structured logical thinking.
When having a discussion, it is probably not wise to jump to the end and demand an explanation. You skip all the middle stuff and miss all the decision points that resulted in your explanation.
Whatsthisthen has made a differentiation in another thread that I was hoping to get to. "AI" is computer related, logical, a program, that is computer bound (even it is an advanced computer). "AS" is the step beyond an AI; it is "artificial sentience" which is a fully aware entity. How AS works may as well be magic to what we know because we don't know how we really work. Then, we can reach that stage where we can talk about a medium-less entity that can manipulate the environment? our minds? our memories?
Is it a disservice to make a distinction between 3 different types of entities? If you had just let the conversation evolve we could have tossed these ideas about, refined them, see how they fit and don't fit together. We might have learned a method of taxonomic classification that can be applied to other areas... like "ufo" where you might find it helpful to have "nuts-n-blots, ours", "nuts-n-blots, theirs", plasma orb (maybe beings?), and interdimensional stuff.
Stuff like that might help from having re-hash everything when somebody pops up and claims "it is all interdimensional beings".
Just saying.
Sometimes I look forward to the mind blow of all mind blows. To have the entire veil lifted if even only for a moment is an intoxicating proposition.
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
a reply to: sputniksteve
Sometimes I look forward to the mind blow of all mind blows. To have the entire veil lifted if even only for a moment is an intoxicating proposition.
Sometimes it can be absolute horror . . .
There is a lot more to ATS then meets the conspiratal eye.
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
a reply to: yuppa
EXE?
originally posted by: Whatsthisthen
a reply to: yuppa
I can be a bit slow sometimes.