Re: virus: kurzweil cuts the mustard

Bob Hartwig (hartwig@ais.net)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:51:45 -0600


At 09:00 PM 12/28/98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Umm, I'd think you should be more sceptical of a machine's
>claim than that of a person, simply because you know that
>*you* are conscious, and other people are built the same,
>but that doesn't apply to machines.
>

Why doesn't it apply to machines? If I have two equally powerful computers
that are built with parallel processing neural network architectures, both
initialized with the same weights and trained equally, what difference does
it make if one is implemented in meat and the other in silicon? Or even in
a simulation on a super fast scalar processor?