On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:34 AM, jrstern <jrstern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kirby urner <kirby.urner@...> wrote:
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>> > Can a computer have original intentionality, without computing?
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>> Can a computer have a mind of it's own?
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> If it's not turned on, then I think not.
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> After that, it gets fuzzy.
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Can we leave it fuzzy?
In my experience, faux precision ("the cure") is often far worse than
the "illness" (since when was fuzzy an exclusively negative
attribute?).
Beware of Anglophone folk who complain of "woolly mindedness" all the
time (in themselves or in others -- a projected sin). Not all of us
are sheep herders.
> Josh
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