... Even granting that this is true: without death, what's your hurry? Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but...
Greetings: This is one, just one of the main reason...your intelligent computer should never be trusted... and the one fact we all keep overlooking in all that...
from the " meet ya half-way" desk of joschka fischer Well....how about a wee bit of apoptosis? ... Even granting that this is true: without death, what's your...
You bring up an interesting point, Kennita, because really what is the hurry if I'm around ostensibly forever. Change is inevitable and an immortal has the...
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From: Steve Dekorte <steve@...> ... I used to be able to find an article on the web that gave a meaning to "consciousness" that made sense to me, but...
... It seems to me that by your definition, mice, fish, reptiles, insects and even some fairly simple robots and computer programs are conscious. Would you...
... I don't know how well those entities can make plans, but quite possibly yes for some of them. I suspect insects don't make plans, so I doubt they would fit...
Hi, I just had to add my 2 cents to the debate over whether superlongevity will somehow be bad because it impedes evolution. Everyone should remember that...
May argument's a wee bit different. I think superlongevity could be advantageous in the long run since sticking around on the earth might well make people...
Insects do make plans, but much of this behavior is hardcoded. e.g. much like a dog will circle it's bed before lying down (presumably to make sure no ...
Title: Structural change in the presence of network externalities: a co-evolutionary model of technological successions. Relevancy to previous bafuture...
Subsume: offshoring...an interesting twist Summary: "The latest trends in technology are in India, so Indian employees in the US are heading back home & ...
African Americans and Aids: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1653 Aids budgeting by the Federal Government in the USA...
Superlogevity or not is a subjective and psychological concept, purely. As for an insect whose life span is only matter of a few human hours, living one human...
... In that case, is "consciousness" a particularly interesting property given that definition? For example, is this C program conscious? #include <stdio.h> ...
DEEP BLUE certainly does planning. Is it conscious then? --Shawn ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
Allow me to go all Wikipedia on your arses... Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise such key features as: Subjectivity - the...
While many Americans (or perhaps "Westerners" in general) might find this disconcerting and a threat to their ecomony, I think off-shoring and the "twist"...
... IMO yes. ... The definition of "plan" matters. For example, it might include callouts to a human who is reading the input and dictating the outputs, and...
... Its computation is also affected by its opponents moves, so it experiences qualia as I defined them. As I've defined consciousness, it is conscious, but...
... Rational discussion is impossible without clear definitions, and as far as I can tell, the term "consciousness" (as it is generally used) is so vague as to...
Hey Everybody, Nanomatrix and I have been having a side discussion about the SuperLongevity issue. I thought I'd insert it into the discussion for those...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post with picture: http://www.futuresalon.org/2006/03/electric_sheep_.html One of us Future Saloners: Spot Draves (You once set a foot...
Good thoughts. I like to add on: 1. Evolution does have a vector. The history we know has clearly told us that. However, the vector had its own direction for...
... consciousness. The concept of an 'observer' who is watching through our eyes is essential to the aspects of both self-awareness and consciousness. When it...
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