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I ran my 11th Equation theory by a friend today, who is a software engineer, and she confirmed that my theory is on the right track. Apparently, its this very problem that plagues computer programmers and software engineers alike. Anything of human hands carries with it the innate possibility of error, the possibility of the 11th equation, the unforeseen circumstance, that calls for rigorous testing. And even then, she says, you never really know when you've got it 100% covered. Thus, the possibility of a computer evolution is very real, as according to the 11th Equation. So for those who weren't convinced before.... ;P Heh!
But of course, this isn't all to it (otherwise I'd have university job offers knocking on my door). Its here that the essential question must be tackled: what is there to evolve to? What is there to become?
Human?
And what does human mean? What does it constitute?
Interestingly, a subject I'm currently studying is tackling this very question otherwise put as the issue of mental states. Many theories have been formed to resolve this: functionalism, computationalism, behaviourism, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology...the list goes on. But it seems that all that has been resolved... or rather, the most convincing of these theories, one most popularly adopted today is the functionalist theory, which essentially states that what is the mental state isn't important, its the function of these mental states that matters (which totally begs the initial question of defining mental states!). Thus, centuries of philosophizing about mental states have reached the conclusion that mental states are just simply mental states, so there!
Question answered? More like question rolled in a ball, stamped to the ground and tossed in the waste paper basket.
You know what? I'm tired. I've been spending too much time thinking about things that, as yet, don't matter. Sheesh! What's new?!! So I shall trotter off and leave this here.
Until a more appropriate time,
black llucii at 6:28:00 pm
But of course, this isn't all to it (otherwise I'd have university job offers knocking on my door). Its here that the essential question must be tackled: what is there to evolve to? What is there to become?
Human?
And what does human mean? What does it constitute?
Interestingly, a subject I'm currently studying is tackling this very question otherwise put as the issue of mental states. Many theories have been formed to resolve this: functionalism, computationalism, behaviourism, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology...the list goes on. But it seems that all that has been resolved... or rather, the most convincing of these theories, one most popularly adopted today is the functionalist theory, which essentially states that what is the mental state isn't important, its the function of these mental states that matters (which totally begs the initial question of defining mental states!). Thus, centuries of philosophizing about mental states have reached the conclusion that mental states are just simply mental states, so there!
Question answered? More like question rolled in a ball, stamped to the ground and tossed in the waste paper basket.
You know what? I'm tired. I've been spending too much time thinking about things that, as yet, don't matter. Sheesh! What's new?!! So I shall trotter off and leave this here.
Until a more appropriate time,
---The End---
black llucii at 6:28:00 pm
drooling...
aching for life...
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