March 31, 200619 yr anyone else feel like this thread should just be merged with the BattleStar Galactica one?
March 31, 200619 yr Author Do they have the machines conquering us with death by snu-snu? Spreading beauty with my katana.
March 31, 200619 yr What are we if not self-replicating organic computers? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Self-replicating, self-directed organic computers?
March 31, 200619 yr What are we if not self-replicating organic computers? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Self-replicating, self-directed organic computers? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> We only react to stimuli. Therefore, our surroundings direct how we react. *Again, I'm only theorizing...* http://entertainmentandbeyond.blogspot.com/
March 31, 200619 yr The human brain is faster than any computer processor currently out there and does far more calculations as well. If we could get to the point where we could enhance our memory, where we could read every book in existence and recite it back word for word would be beneficial to us. Even learning about physics, mathematics and so on and applying them to create a better world to live in also has its merits. In order to do this they need to create a computer chip that that is faster than the human mind and has the ability to call up information that we would typically forget. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
April 1, 200619 yr But will we control the chip ... or the chip us? OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
April 1, 200619 yr We would become one with it. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.
April 1, 200619 yr The human brain is faster than any computer processor currently out there and does far more calculations as well. If we could get to the point where we could enhance our memory, where we could read every book in existence and recite it back word for word would be beneficial to us. Even learning about physics, mathematics and so on and applying them to create a better world to live in also has its merits. In order to do this they need to create a computer chip that that is faster than the human mind and has the ability to call up information that we would typically forget.is <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The human brain does not make calculations like a computer does. Its superiority lies in something far greater. Mathematics are a product of the human brain. A human brain imagined it and human brain made it possible. A computer's calculating power is but a pale copy of what the current human brain can do. http://entertainmentandbeyond.blogspot.com/
April 1, 200619 yr One other advantage human brains have over computers is that neurons are highly parallel in that a huge number of them can be active at the same time, producing very complicated behavior due to the number of connections they have. OTOH, we're only starting to enter the age of parallelizable computers - up till now it's an instruction at a time execution, which cannot be compared to millions of neurons activating in synchrony. There are doors
April 1, 200619 yr Should be less than fifty years before computers are more powerful than the human brain (the most powerful thinking engine in the known universe), based on Ray Kurzweil's extrapolations of human progress towards a technological singularity. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
April 2, 200619 yr Author I agree with you in many ways but at the moment humans are much more sophisticated than computers in that respect so I'd go with "computers being a copy of us" rather than vice-versa in that respect. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree with you completely And in many ways, cars, cameras, industrial robots and many other machines are copies of some part or concept from the human body. It's almost like we reproduce mechanically as well as biologically... I've been thinking about it and it seems to me while humans and computers can absorb sensory data, process it and come to a decision fairly routinely, we have the ability to create solutions or new stuff. I'm not sure whether computers have anywhere near that capability at the moment. Spreading beauty with my katana.
April 2, 200619 yr Coming up with "new" stuff is easy: simply use a random number generator. It's coming up with useful new stuff in a short period of time that's hard There are doors
April 2, 200619 yr Author Well I guess an army of random typewriting monkeys works for soccer tabloids so it can't be all bad. But they're still live monkeys. Spreading beauty with my katana.
April 2, 200619 yr Life has nothing to do with it :D http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ I should mention that a paper generated by the above program managed to make it into an actual academic conference... Edit: More computer generated fun! http://uzful.org/generators_online/on_line_generators.php Edited April 2, 200619 yr by Azarkon There are doors
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