Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ap1i+ From: ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: The limitations of logic Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 88 20:55:44 GMT References: <9020@bcsaic.UUCP> <1628@buengc.BU.EDU>, <42836@linus.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <42836@linus.UUCP> / In article <1628@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) / wonders what we would expect a topologically and neuromimetically / accurate model of a brain to think. / / I imagine the simulated brain would take stock of the situation / and inquire of its creator, "To what purpose or goal shall I devote / my ability to think?" I assume this simbrain has been taught language in the same way our brains are. (If it was created with already-existing patterns taken from a human, it's real easy to figure out what it would think -- just ask the human it's simulating!) So I would assume it to have developed a personality over the years of its maturing; I doubt it would placidly look to its creators for direction. (Unless its education had been designed to indoctrinate it with the fact that it was a servant.) --Z