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 16:36:32 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7407f668-e6b6-4176-bb9f-af9695fc75b4@googlegroups.com> <7z4n0dzrld.fsf@example.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:30714 On Sun, 25 May 2014 13:38:22 -0400, David Hume wrote: > As a thought experiment, create a very powerful computer, simulate a > world with autonomous entities in it, wait for intelligence to > evolve. As a thought experiment, calculate how large our universe is in terms a cube composed of 1Kg lead blocks. Then, calculate how large it is at the atomic level. Then, ask yourself just how could a computer represent such an immensity. The computer would need to be even more immense than what it represents. Rod Pemberton