Given Professor Stepran's suggestion that there is the possiility for unexpe
cted behaviour to emerge in biological systems, then would it be safe also to
ascertain that a hypothetical system, whose behaviours resemble the basic human
thought responses, to then, display consiousness or a form of it.
I have presented this point as a metaphorical allegory to my point. In the
movie PI (1998). There was a machine whose sole purpose was to find patterns on
the stock market, when the computer crashed, it printed out a number, that some
argued contained the name of God. For Cerniak's story, the subjects fell into a
coma coming to the realization of some sort of "truth" , if the same was
applied to any machine, that does not come "wired" (apologies for the
gratuituous quotes), for the aformentioned truth, then wouldn't it cause it to
crash? as mentioned before by my previous posts.
One of my classmates also argued for the possibility of a recursive loop.
Whenever a computer program enters an instruction block containing an endless
loop, this will cause a memory leak, and will ultimately peak with some sort of
system malfunction, controllable, or otherwise.
Now for the case of the Riddle, let it be a set of unprocessable instructions
that causes and endless loop in the mind, causing it to crash (or as Mary Ann
put it, the mind tunes out, although i may slightly disagree with that point
since I think that what happens is that the brain is just not constructed to
take the input it's being given, but I digress ).
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