[Ray Kurzweil] seems to be saying that once a computer can cycle quickly enough, it will stop being an adding machine and become a sentient being. Does Kurzweil also believe that once a knitting machine makes enough mittens, it will turn into his grandmother?
--Peter K. Sampson
The Meta-Critical Post-Secular Trans-Enlightenment Approach
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In a post last week we mentioned the enigmatic 18th century German thinker
Georg Hamann, whose baffling oeuvre is
peppered with allusions, riddles, jokes...
6 hours ago
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Might already be the case.
Lots of folks want being human beings to be somehow special, because the alternative is not special at all.
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