Re: virus: religion

Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 10:49:01 -0400

Freewill must be constrained to a framework. No one has absolute freewill, you
are limited by knowledge, experience and capabilities, and I am sure a million
other limitations exist. So far freewill cannot be programmed into a robot,
but you are a fool if you think that will never be the case. I am willing to
bet a lot that Artifical Intelligence (machine sentience) will exist in our
lifetime.

Sodom

Keith Elis wrote:

> Eric Boyd wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > But like I said earlier... the best argument I can think of to establish
> > the fact that humans have freewill is the arguement from creativity. I
> > simply don't think that a robot (e.g. a being without freewill)
>
> What is free-will? This is one term that ought to be defined. And if you
> think we have it, why can't it be programmed into a robot?
>
> > -- no
> > matter how well programmed -- could display the creativity necessary to,
> > say, invent calculus.
>
> The brain is a computer. All evidence points away from a soul. And the
> mind? Well that's what the brain does.
>
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