Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Are Computer able to think? Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 16:36:28 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <7407f668-e6b6-4176-bb9f-af9695fc75b4@googlegroups.com> <6421b27f-99b1-4534-93c2-c2354ce707d7@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:30713 On Sun, 25 May 2014 09:52:29 -0400, bruce axtens wrote: > We are yet to figure out how humans think, that is, how the brain works. > When we figure that out, we'll be able to make computers do the same. I don't believe that's a necessary prerequisite. We could use DNA to produce a living computer without ever knowing how the brain portion of the DNA works. Or, we could effect similar functionality as the human mind in silicon without knowing fully how the human mind works. In either case, we don't need to know how the human mind works. Rod Pemberton