Untrue. We'll immediately launch another probe with devices for detecting interplanetary WMDs, get bored waiting for it to get conclusive results, and so send bigger ships to liberate the methan^H^H^H^H^H^Htitans...
Or maybe the TV appeals will start: "there's been life discovered on the moon, Titan. These lifeforms don't know the love and teachings of Jesus. We need you to donate money so we can build our own spaceship, so we can spread to word of Jesus to these so called 'Marklah'."
Airbags don't help you if your car spontaneously combusts. Seatbelts don't help if you take them off in a panic whilst reaching for the break. Crash helmet doesn't help if your motorbike gets hit by a large asteroid.
No one has addressed issues with accidental deployment of the parachute
Confirm deploy parachute? Yes/No: y
Invalid response, please enter Yes/No: yes
Invalid response, please enter Yes/No: Yes
Please enter the volume label of your parachute to continue:
[ EMRG01 ]
Verifying parachute...10%...20%...3*&#@%:!
A computer that could not do something it was not programmed to do would not be self-aware.
1) Do you actually know what the word "aware" means? Slightly-but-not-very-loosly-speaking, anything with knowledge of itself is BY DEFINITION self aware. It has nothing to do with level of ability to act/react to something.
2) You are not able to do anything you weren't "programmed" to do. Your DNA controls where your joints move, where muscles will grow to move them. You may be able to perform a wide range of complex actions, but these broken down are just a result of a wide range of combinations of the more basic actions you can perform. Can you will yourself to grow another arm? Another visual cortex? I don't think you were programmed with the ability to do those things... and I also don't think you can do them.
3) The particals that make up the molecules that make up the chemicals that make up our brains are governed by the laws of physics. Their interactions can be expressed mathmatically, therefore simulated mathmatically. Whilst describing a whole brain in enough detail to build a working simulation would be a job of a size I don't even need to emphasise, there's no fundamental reason why it should be considered impossible.
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Untrue. We'll immediately launch another probe with devices for detecting interplanetary WMDs, get bored waiting for it to get conclusive results, and so send bigger ships to liberate the methan^H^H^H^H^H^Htitans...
Or maybe the TV appeals will start: "there's been life discovered on the moon, Titan. These lifeforms don't know the love and teachings of Jesus. We need you to donate money so we can build our own spaceship, so we can spread to word of Jesus to these so called 'Marklah'."
But most likely, both will happen.
Forget actually making anything anymore, the patent-sue method has become a full business model on it's own...
wait... can't business models be patented now?! I gotta get me down to the USPTO!!!
Airbags don't help you if your car spontaneously combusts. Seatbelts don't help if you take them off in a panic whilst reaching for the break. Crash helmet doesn't help if your motorbike gets hit by a large asteroid.
No one has addressed issues with accidental deployment of the parachute
Confirm deploy parachute? Yes/No:
y
Invalid response, please enter Yes/No:
yes Invalid response, please enter Yes/No:
Yes
Please enter the volume label of your parachute to continue:
[ EMRG01 ]
Verifying parachute...10%...20%...3*&#@%:!
Blind hackers like myself use 8-dot computer braille which generally has a one-to-one mapping of ASCII to braille symbols.
... respect!
so basically what you're saying is you can read a kind of 8 bit binary?!
A computer that could not do something it was not programmed to do would not be self-aware.
1) Do you actually know what the word "aware" means? Slightly-but-not-very-loosly-speaking, anything with knowledge of itself is BY DEFINITION self aware. It has nothing to do with level of ability to act/react to something.
2) You are not able to do anything you weren't "programmed" to do. Your DNA controls where your joints move, where muscles will grow to move them. You may be able to perform a wide range of complex actions, but these broken down are just a result of a wide range of combinations of the more basic actions you can perform. Can you will yourself to grow another arm? Another visual cortex? I don't think you were programmed with the ability to do those things... and I also don't think you can do them.
3) The particals that make up the molecules that make up the chemicals that make up our brains are governed by the laws of physics. Their interactions can be expressed mathmatically, therefore simulated mathmatically. Whilst describing a whole brain in enough detail to build a working simulation would be a job of a size I don't even need to emphasise, there's no fundamental reason why it should be considered impossible.