Posted: Jan 17, 2017 5:53 pm
archibald wrote:DavidMcC wrote:I haven't read Pinker, but I am quite sure that the mind cannot be reduced to a computer, no matter how big the computer, largely because a computer does not use emotion to make decisions, only data input and computation. Show me a computer with atitude that isn't pre-programmed - fake attitude.
We've been around for hundreds of thousands of years but only had proper computers for about half a century. Give it time.
Maybe with robots/computers that are biological?
Oh, wait! ... That's us! NS beat us to it long ago.
EDIT: We are, after all, just slightly unpredictable robots with attitude.