Terminator with a limp

[Robert L. Vaessen]

Pat -

On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 04:56 , Patrick G Konshak wrote:

> Computers don't have conscience.  So they don't have to follow linear
> nodes (events).  When computers become complex enough to program
> themselves, will they become God like and take over?
When computers become intelligent enough to program themselves, 
they will be writing programs based upon the laws of the 
universe as we taught them.

If the laws that we give them allow them to bypass the laws of 
physics (laws which restrict our ability to experience reality), 
then they will be able to think outside the 'matrix'. Their 
consciousness will be unrestricted by the laws which restrict 
our consciousness. I don't think that this will happen any time 
soon.

We may someday be able to create machines which can think on 
their own. But, the limits to their thinking will in part be 
limited by the laws that we provided them with in the first 
place. They'll struggle with their own version of 'Who makes the 
rules?'.

- Robert