computer don't make choices. Neither programs (unless one gives them some
kind of entity...;)
lines codes perform tests, and according to the results, do things (cf
loops). All are puppets in the programmers's hands who, by programing the
codes, tells the computer what to do by talking to it through line codes,
which are interpreted through a compiler or executer.
All "choice" that the computer seems to be doing are only anticipated by
the programmer. If the programmer goofs, it's an open door to hackers or
to crashing or hanging: the computer will give up as soon as it is
confronted to a choice it is not programmed for, or it will still try,
which will cause a crash/hang or anything...;)
Aloha,
-rv,
> Did the computer make choices? Or the program? Or did the programmer
> make a program which allowed for variables and the computer simply
> followed what it was told to do by the program which was told what to
> do by the programmer?
>
> Shalom
>
> David Lind
> Trickster@postmark.net
>
> 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
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 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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