Terrafamilia <terrafamilia at irtc.net> wrote in message
news:<3D4D7AF4.716175D9 at irtc.net>...
> "Arthur T. Murray" wrote:
>> > In response to http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html (q.v.),
> > Michael Ash <mail at mikeash.com> wrote on Sun, 04 Aug 2002:
> > >
> > > In article <9d67e55e.0208040853.1535d477 at posting.google.com>,
> > > dtate at ida.org (David Tate) wrote:
> > >
> > >> There are also some of us who honestly don't know
> > >> whether machines will ever be able to think in the
> > >> manner that humans do (i.e. consciously), because
> > >> nobody has yet figured out the mechanisms by
> > >> which conscious thought arises.
> >
> > http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/theory3.html and
> > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/theory5.html tell all.
> >
> > >> Depending on how that investigation turns out,
> > >> I could imagine it becoming commonplace to build
> > >> sentient conscious machines, or everyone agreeing
> > >> that it's hopeless to even try.
> >
> > It has already been done in Forth for intelligent robots at
> > http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/mind4th.html and as a Tutorial at
> > http://mentifex.virtualentity.com/jsaimind.html -- AI Mind.
>> And I'm sure you are waiting patiently for the Nobel committee
> to get in touch with you.
Any member of the neuroscience brethren and sistren (not me, a
P.O.N.A.) has a chance at the prize in physiology or medicine
if they map the brain to locate _any_ valid Theory of Mind.
>> Ciao,
>> Terrafamilia
