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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:09:56 -0500
From: jstyle@yorku.ca
Reply-To: jstyle@yorku.ca
Subject: Re: Dizzard question
To: jstyle@yorku.ca
to ID myself
J. Rueda
Stud # xxxx96253
Quoting jstyle@yorku.ca:
> 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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