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To: skinowski who wrote (441638)	8/20/2011 11:00:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793958

True enough: <The tough one is finding (creating?) intelligence which would be aware of itself, which could reflect upon itself.> Most people operate on rule of thumb and slogan, thereby avoiding the need to think or reflect upon themselves. They can't remember much and can remember what they do only inaccurately and not for long. For example, you probably can't remember the first two words of this paragraph without cheating and looking back to see. A computer would have it and could recall them in a minuscule fraction of a second and can write "Did you mean miniscule?" and give search results for alternative spelling [which is not alternate spelling]. But a computer wouldn't do that because it would know that minuscule is correct and so is alternative, but dumb humans who can't remember or think wouldn't know either. And they would put apostrophe's in the wrong place. People also make typos galore. Yes, it's true that it took people to make the computers, so far. But that's irrelevant to the point that computers already show more intelligence than humans in many ways which are considered intelligent. If computers are made with supersonic brains which can out think humans, it doesn't really matter how they got made. Once they are made, like human and other animal DNA has been made, another copy can be produced with no particular effort - as shown by drunk people being able to produce another baby while barely knowing what they are doing if affected by gin. The intelligence genie is out of the bottle Skinow. Personally, I find the memory support fantastically useful. I just need a device which can tell me what to do next which save me a lot of effort and avoid me having to have my own slogans and rules of thumb for making decisions. With the cognitive functions handed over to a robot intelligence, I could get on with the important business of eating bananas, replicating life, swimming in the ocean waves, playing with grand children and trying again for a hole in one. Most people already vote for Big Brother and Big Government because they know their own cognitive powers are so pathetic that they want help for their pitiful talents from somebody to tell them what to do. Mqurice