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Can an intellect judge itself?
Suppose you want to measure the length of something, e.g. the length of a kitchen table. It's not an easy task, but luckily you have a meter stick on hand! So you take your meter stick and make your ...
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Concerning A.I. and Robots - Can they reach sentience and consciousness?
If a robot had a cognitive system in its 'head' that can pass the Turing Test and its AI abilities where self-sustaining (and it can reprogram any part of 'itself' without causing self-sabotage) how ...
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Regarding the Halting problem and the human mind
The Halting problem (I think) is the problem of trying to find a general algorithm for determining if a specific program will halt within a computer system. It's been shown a general procedure for ...
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Are the Sims self aware?
According to Professor Nick Bostrom of Oxford University:
...at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” ...
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