From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 00:58:43 GMT
Hello everyone
>From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD Can Only Humans Respond to DQ?
>Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:47:32 -0500
>
>
>My interpretation of sex and such is that they were all Dynamic
>responses that happened in the past but are now simply repetitions of
>firmly ensconced static (unchanging) patterns of behavior. Admittedly,
>Pirsig isn't absolutely clear on this question. That's why I raised it.
>Again, a passage from Lila's Child appears to confirm the view that only
>humans can respond to DQ:
>
>"Since the MOQ states that consciousness (i.e. intellectual patterns) is
>the collection and manipulation of symbols, created in the brain, that
>stand for patterns of experience, then artificial intelligence would be
>the
>collection and manipulation of symbols, created in a machine, that
>stand for patterns of experience. If one agrees that experience exists at
>the inorganic level, then it is clear that computers already have
>artificial
>intelligence. A question arises if the term "consciousness" is expanded
>to mean "intuition" or "mystic awareness." Then computers are shut
>out by the fact that static patterns do not create Dynamic quality or
>respond to it."
Hi Platt
Your quote is from an old version of LC. The last 4 words should be deleted.
Dan
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