Re: intellignece and conciousness, the one implies the other?

mimo_545@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dunno Curt, I don't think we'll ever solve the mystery of the soul - -
> there's still
> so much to learn in physics, ...

Yeah, there's still plenty of places for the cuase of the human soul to
hide in physcis. It might be something we have not yet discovered, and it
might be something that will take another 10,000 years to uncover. It
might be something which is impossible for us to understand from within
this universe we exist in.

But, all the data we have about the soul can currently be explained as
nothing more than the actions of a complex machine (the human body). And
it's clear that we are far down the road to completely understanding the
human body and also very far down the road on building machines which work
in ways like the human body (computers/robots/etc). If the soul is nothing
but the action of a body, then it's highly likely what we will master it,
and duplicate it, in short order (relative to how long man has been
around). That's what most of us working on AI are betting on. But until
we do master the working of the human body and duplicate its important
behavior functions in machines of our own design, we won't know if this
guess about the soul is correct. We just have to keep pusing forward and
following the clues and see where it leads.

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