Greetings,
Computers do make choices, jc, and it is here that your assertion fails. Simple example. I told my
computer to defragment my hard disk. It assessed the situation and decided that the best course of
action was to perform a full defragment rather than a quick defragment. The computer program made
the choice and carried out the action, not I.
Unless you can show that choice to be qualitatively different to human choice (and you haven't) then
you are the one 'blowing smoke,' matey boy.
Struan
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Struan Hellier
< mailto:struan@clara.co.uk>
"All our best activities involve desires which are disciplined and
purified in the process."
(Iris Murdoch)
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