the great tinkerer wrote:
>can someone please summarrize the entire thread that has been goin on
>for the past week or so... i havent followed it and its piled up in my
>email so i deleted the entire thread...
>thanks
Well, it had NOTHING to do with mustard, that's for sure! And I kudo-ized you in my last post as well; too bad you missed it.
Anyway, it was basically Robin & Co. (not to single you out, Robin, but
apparently I just did) arguing over whether or not machines can achieve
consciousness, and whether they could do this themselves or by us
designing/programing it. A good discussion, but then it got really
divergent and self-indulgent by questioning if consciousness even exists
(and it's definition), also including David M. and Joe D. arguing about who
was the most faithless, and then the thread evolved into a bunch of
sauerkraut (no pork, I'm a vegetarian) that was wholly fruitless and at
that point I stopped paying attention.
And sorry for the consistent inconsistence of my name on my part,
~kristy