Re: AI versus Human Consciousness

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:37:52 -0600

Raan wrote:
<snip>
> Whether or not you think I am talking about science is entirely irrelevant
> to what I originally said which you finally addressed when you claim there
> is no absence of paranormal phenomena.

There is significant statistical evidence that certain phenomena,
commonly labeled 'paranormal', does, in fact, exist. Whether or
not it is *in fact* paranormal has not been determined. It may be
simply a statistical anomaly with no explanation. It may, just
as well, indicate physical phenomena that we simply have no
current explanation for.

I note that you categorically claim that all such evidence is
statistical anomaly, yet offer no evidence for your claim.

> Are you now claiming to have proof
> that such phenomena do in fact exist?

I have never made such a claim. The real question is: Is your
reading comprehension so faulty that you think I have made such a
claim, or are you merely being devious by willfully putting words
in my mouth?

> Where when who and what but never
> mind how or why before those are established as fact.

Your sentence above cannot be parsed correctly. Perhaps you will
clarify.

Do tell.

Tell what? 

-- 
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the 
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally 
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
     -- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"

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