Well - one difference between computers making choice and humans is that humans can make decisions based
on intuition (ie feelings?). I read somewhere recently that they are trying to create computers that
have intuitions - though I don't think it's possible or rather the 'intuition' that they will end up
displaying will be a much stripped down version. - Hmm not sure. Are humans rational or do they behave
simply on what feels good? Or both? I'm sure you know the answers to that one
Richard Chamberlain
Struan Hellier wrote:
> 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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