Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!shani
From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will & Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <717@taurus.BITNET>
Date: 1 May 88 06:47:17 GMT
References: <4134@super.upenn.edu> <3200014@uiucdcsm> <1484@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Sender: uucp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel
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Summary: A self-cotradicting request....

In article <30502@linus.UUCP>, bwk@mbunix.BITNET writes:
>
> I would like to learn how to imbue silicon with consciousness,
> awareness, free will, and a value system.

  First, by requesting that, you are underastimating yourself as a free-willing
creature, and second, your request is self-contradicting ans shows little
understanding of matters, like free will and value systems - such things cannot
be 'given', they simply exist. (Something to beare in mind for other perpuses,
besides to AI...). You can write 'moral' programs, even in BASIC, if you want,
because they will have YOUR value system....

O.S.