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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: yes!
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:44:49 +1000
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On 17/08/2024 8:07 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:01:06 +0100, Martin Brown
> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/08/2024 22:53, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:42:12 +0100, Martin Brown
>>> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15/08/2024 00:55, john larkin wrote:

<snip>

>>>> So far it looks like consciousness is an emergent property of any
>>>> sufficiently complex computational network. The big super computer
>>>> networks are now getting close to the threshold where that might happen.
>>>
>>> It's just code.
>>
>> Not any more it isn't.
> 
> Those giant computer networks don't run code?
> 
>> Your lack of understanding is a handicap.
> 
> Your lack of imagination ditto.

John Larkin's imagination is given free reign by his restricted 
knowledge base. It's not constrained by much real world knowledge - not 
than he realises this - which lets him imagine that he is rather more 
creative than he appears to be be to other, better-informed, people.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney


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