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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby khanster » Thu May 10, 2012 11:56 pm

at1with0 wrote:Self-awareness is a prerequisite to self-modification.


Self awareness is awareness of changing self.

Self modification is therefore a prerequisite to self awareness. :naughty:
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby at1with0 » Fri May 11, 2012 8:49 am

khanster wrote:
at1with0 wrote:Self-awareness is a prerequisite to self-modification.


Self awareness is awareness of changing self.

Self modification is therefore a prerequisite to self awareness. :naughty:



Seems like a leap.

It should say, "changing self is therefore a prerequisite to self awareness."

:dance:
"Be as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove."
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby DIss0n80r » Fri May 11, 2012 12:27 pm

Khan's logical insights have really gone downhill lately. :thumbdown:
Assimilation by the Borg should fix him right up. :thumbup:
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby at1with0 » Fri May 11, 2012 1:16 pm

I wonder if logic ever makes something true or perhaps it just convinces logical people that something is true.
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby DIss0n80r » Fri May 11, 2012 4:49 pm

Can symbols inherently be true or false?
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby at1with0 » Fri May 11, 2012 6:40 pm

I think strings of symbols, which are just symbols, can point to truths but in themselves are not truths.
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby DIss0n80r » Fri May 11, 2012 8:50 pm

And if reality itself is symbolic?
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby at1with0 » Fri May 11, 2012 11:17 pm

What is pointed to is of KEY importance.
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby khanster » Fri May 11, 2012 11:27 pm

at1with0 wrote:I think strings of symbols, which are just symbols, can point to truths but in themselves are not truths.


Truth forms a mathematical structure.
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Re: The Technological Singularity

Postby khanster » Fri May 11, 2012 11:32 pm

at1with0 wrote:
khanster wrote:
at1with0 wrote:Self-awareness is a prerequisite to self-modification.


Self awareness is awareness of changing self.

Self modification is therefore a prerequisite to self awareness. :naughty:



Seems like a leap.

It should say, "changing self is therefore a prerequisite to self awareness."

:dance:


There can be no awareness without change. Self reference is a prerequisite to self modification and self modification is a prerequisite to self awareness. Self change IS self modification... At1with0 and Dissonator are so hopelessly melancholy that they cannot see the forest for the trees... :boohoo:
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