> Usually the chain includes the Islamic Middle East ...
Until the Islamic world turned its back on Neoplaton thought under the guidance of theologian Al-Ghazali in the 11th century.
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Until the Islamic world turned its back on Neoplaton thought under the guidance of theologian Al-Ghazali in the 11th century.
What you refer to as 'conscious experience' is an emergent property of processes in the brain in communication with one another. The 'subjective aspect' is an internal recreation of the external world, continuously updated from data provided through the senses. Ergo, no need to go invoking some invisible undetectable subatomic substance, the phlogiston of the mind.
Is this the same Linux Foundation that gave Microsoft Keynote Position at the last LinuxCon?
"these malfunctions could be as simple as a buffer overflow"
No amount of 'formal verification' will detect or prevent buffer overflows, which are a defect in how the hardware allocates memory. The cure must also be found in the hardware.
"Back in the 20th century, if a program had a bug, that was bad, the program might crash, so be it,”
It must of been on a different planet, cause I can remember using networked computers in college way back in 1984. and the first Internet worm occurred in 1988.
> Dude what's your problem? I can't comment on the pictures? Look at the thread, plenty of people are commenting.
now we'll never know :(
We don't doubt that consciousness exists, what we do call into question is the assertion that it is of a non-corporeal nature. Therefore it has to be physical in nature.
panpsychism: 'the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness.'
They do, every so often some do wake up, that's why the agents have to hunt them down before they contaminate the rest of the matrix (whole crops were destroyed), or failing that destroy and remake the matrix.
> If the machines needed a power buffer .. Put every human in a persistent vegetative state by physically destroying the part of the brain that controls consciousness.
The experiment doesn't require them as a power plant but as a living conscious biological computer. Once the Architect realized that machine intelligence wasn't up to the task, that's when he/it decided to enslave all of humanity. The question being; what would be the nature of an artificial intelligence responsible for creating the physical universe. By recreating a small part of it in the Matrix the architect could study the experiment under controlled conditions.
Arthur: "And are you?"
Slartibartfast: "No. That's where it all falls down of course."
You're only partly correct. The battery story was told to the humans to blind them from the truth, which would have been revealed to us in the sequels, except in between, the Wachowskis seem to have left planet earth. The question shouldn't be what is the Matrix, but what is its purpose.
The original matrix was created by the humans, but once the Architect became self aware he hijacked it for his own purpose. The Architects true purpose in creating the Matrix was to model a piece of reality and therefore by observing that, might discover the nature of the AI that created it.
In order for the experiment to succeed everyone except the Architect had to be blinded as to its true purpose. The previous Matrices were the result of failed experiments and so had to be destroyed. As such the Architect, the Oracle, Agent Smith, Neo and the humans were engaged in some kind of gargantuan scientific experiment. You would agree the above would have made more interesting sequels.