tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post381969787285652952..comments2023-10-09T12:05:52.247-06:00Comments on LifeSmart : Conscious Machines and Human CultureAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09718138217801350798noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-14082432376094378612009-05-22T09:22:04.889-06:002009-05-22T09:22:04.889-06:00I'm sure great progress is being made. But I'm rem...I'm sure great progress is being made. But I'm reminded of Marvin Minsky's confident prediction in Life Magazine in the early 1970's that natural language interpretation was no more than ten years away. I had just graduated from Carnegie-Mellon's artificial intelligence program with a Master's degree and I was skeptical. It's now almost forty years later and we're still counting. In my experienceBob Liebermanhttp://www.cultivatingcreativity.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-21737110571958478412009-05-07T10:29:00.000-06:002009-05-07T10:29:00.000-06:00great link and article! i would certainly agree th...great link and article! i would certainly agree that the 'material' (or more accurately, energetic-material) is only part of the story.<br /><br />search this website for the article on Qualia by Ramachandran.<br /><br />(http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/search?q=Ramachandran)<br /><br />thanks for the great comments, and i invite other readers to check out the site linked above.Michael-https://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148952300031935997.post-62702155167836920642009-05-07T07:59:00.000-06:002009-05-07T07:59:00.000-06:00I was recently reading a book by the philosopher W...I was recently reading a book by the philosopher William James ("The Will to believe and other essays in popular philosophy"), written over a century ago, in which he notes that there are those who believe that all the problems of the nature of the universe and consciousness etc. will imminently be solved by science. There is a fascinating article at <A HREF="http://newempiricism.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com