[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
How Do We Get from a Potential World to an Actual One?
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We know from our Aristotle that potency and actuality (like matter and
form) are complementary, and furthermore, that potential must be parasitic
on the ...
1 hour 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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