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Politics : Evolution
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To: LLCF who wrote (9134)9/28/2010 8:36:25 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
"IT cant choose differently between food and poison"

It acts differently depending on what it is fed. Poison (electrical overload, for instance), will kill it. So will spraying chlorine on the hard platter or other food unsuitable to her nature.

It no longer needs to be plugged in to information but can receive it through signals in the air. In this way, it has gotten far beyond human beings who must rely on rather primitive sensing devices. Of course it can "calculate" extremely accurately and has solved mathematical problems that had bested the best human minds for centuries--indeed, for all of history.

As humans and their machines evolve it will be interesting indeed. One day some young children in different parts of the world will "hear" data wirelessly. And perhaps machines will "feel" things wirelessly. In any event, chaos could prevail and who knows where it will all lead. Can you imagine the scenarios??

"can't change itself depending on climate"

It responds very acutely to changes in climate and requires a fairly constant temperature just as do people. If the temperature is too high or too low it will malfunction and die.

"can't turn on and off it's programs"

It can begin communications at set times to entities all over the planet and can shut itself down and conserve energy, etc. Some models can recharge their energy supply using energy consumed. Admittedly, computers are very primitive. But do you think a sufficiently primitive person might well be convinced that a robot (in human form) was intelligent and alive??

"I could easily argue some posters here are much less intelligent than the day they were born."

But you would need charts and records to get beyond presumption... ;-) And the argument itself would mean nothing to the defense--lol!
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