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Discussion: The Matrix...Just what was it's operating system anyway
hm_murdock:
ya... but there's still one huge misconception
electronic intelligence will not be digital. it'll be analog.
pofnlice:
this is kind of like the PS controller thingy with the direction buttons versus the knobby thing right
what I mean is, why would it be so critical that it be either analog or digital, couldn't it be possible it develope some other sort of datum transference? Again one that would be superior to both?
[ October 13, 2003: Message edited by: AmericanBastard ]
slave:
quote:Originally posted by Agent Jimmy James Smith:
ya... but there's still one huge misconception
electronic intelligence will not be digital. it'll be analog.
--- End quote ---
Perhaps, if we model machine intelligence through reverse-engineering of the human brain, which I suspect we will successfully accomplish in around 40 years or so. However, it doesn't seem too far-fetched to me to build a machine brain that contains both analog components and digital components for doing advanced math/memory manipulation inside its head. Kinda like a human having a calculator integrated in his brain.
Laukev7:
At any rate, for now we may at least be able to operate machinery directly from the brain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17434-2003Oct12?language=printer
slave:
Check out this mind-bending article about quantum computing and consciousness:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html?m=3%23534
Most of it went over my head but it was still very intresting. According to the author, primitive consciousness probably evolved during the early Cambrian explosion in small worms and urchins, since they are the first known creatures to contain the theoretically necessary quantum sctructures needed to create consciousness.
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