artificial_intelligence cube Would require an artificial god... ³ 020111 ... daxle which explains the lack of actual_intelligence in this godless world 020111 ... kelli crane is so unoriginal 020112 ... pushpins fake. fake. everything is so fake. 020112 ... j_blue everything isnt fake, just duped stop paying for ideas my only politics? 020112 ... (perplexed) cube Kelli, i don't get the 'unoriginal' thang. Could you please elaborate? ³ 020112 ... kelli crane i think if your intelligence is artificial then you have no real thoughts of your own. how unoriginal. That is a word isn't it? 020112 ... kelli crane i don't mean you personally. Just in gereral. 020113 ... cube Thanks kelli. I wasn't thinking in terms of people having artificial intelligence - it's a term has always been used for machines as far as i know. You've put a new slant on it though... ³ 020113 ... kelli crane didn't mean to slant. 020113 ... jusslissen2me I agree with Kelli. What makes one original and unique is the will to think upon what ever they'd feel. I think that AI(art-intell) isn't original nor unique in any way. It's limited as opposed to the works of a brain with a central intelligence. 020729 ... no reason to fake being smart. 020729 ... riuuuuuuuuuuuuhc it may seem intelligent on the outside, performing functions and seeking knowledge, and engineering whatever, and mechanizing biological things and performing all sorts of "amazing" feats of logic and technologic, but it is all an artifice. you will never know what it really knows, or if it really knows. and silly attempts to merge your sentience with it will only bring a change in your sentience; two brains pureed into one does not unify two sentiences but rather changes them both intangibly. sentience and logic were never for a moment synonymous; why discard the trials of the former merely to construct a monstrosity of the latter that you shant be experiencing anyway? the answer is because you cannot stop, because you are as powerless as ever, you are trapped in a rat race of blind mice whose tails will soon be cut off. ten thousand years and you are further into the cave than ever, playing a psychotic game of the emperor's new clothes. intelligence is an artifice. 060124 ... u24 "you will never know what it really knows" by what criteria can you say that you know that other people know things? 060124 ... monkey out in space i think you can't ever know... it is the postmodern condition. us, the citizens of capitalist states must always be in a form of sham, cheated; for it is this very form of acceptable deception that has become the very basis of our modes of production. for this reason, everything “postmodern”, especially technology and “cyberspace” depends on reproduction, mass production and deceit. uncertainty. it seems that the aim of such culture, is to create a certain kind of “knowledge” or “intelligence” which may seem as though it were expanding and becoming increasingly available to the masses via the information superhighway, when in fact is industrially controlled. 060124 ... z see: life_intelligence_and_technology 060124 ... tourist The Space Monkey Has onto Something More Profound than Coconuts 081121 ... sameolme Accelerondo 081121 what's it to you? who go blather from