[eu-gene] 40 Years Of Rule-Based Art

[Andrei]

Where/how does suicide fit into Popper's theory about the function of
the brain ?

- Andrei


--- Vitorino RAMOS <vitorino.ramos at alfa.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> 
> You are so funny paul :) ... Let's try out in a different way, shall
> we ?! 
> After all, maybe you can climb those stairs also !
> 
> [...] I do not really believe that we shall succeed in creating
> life artificially; but after having reached the moon and landed
> a spaceship or two on Mars, I realize that this disbelief of mine
> means very little. But computers are totally different from brains,
> whose function is not primarily to compute but to guide and
> balance an organism and help it to stay alive. It is for this reason
> that the first step of nature toward an intelligent mind was the
> creation of life, and I think that should we artificially create an
> intelligent mind, we would have to follow the same path. [...]
> 
> in, "Popper & Eccles", Karl Popper, 1983.
> 
> 
> v. http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/Vramos-ARCHITOPIA.pdf



	
		
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