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iwz Mar 8, 2004

haha best movie marketing yet. omegatweeter = completely fooled.

ophelia Mar 15, 2004

don't they have the technology to make this, or something simular, in real life though?...what's goin on, where are all the androids futurists of the 50's promised us

dgiaimo Mar 15, 2004

No they don't. They're having difficulty making robots that can even be as intelligent as an insect. They're nowhere near simulating human-level intelligence.

ophelia Mar 15, 2004

hmm..guess i have to brush up on my a.i. development research....i thought by now w/like, nano-circuitry & the increasingly smaller sizes of computer chips & stuff they'd be able to make a "brain" ...

dgiaimo Mar 15, 2004

Did you hear about the DARPA grand challenge? All the entries failed. They can't even get a computer to do a simple thing like drive a car.

malibu Mar 16, 2004

well jehovah created something amazing. how could humans who can't even direct their own step equal one of jehovah's creations? just doesn't happen.

ophelia Mar 16, 2004

haha, i never said EQUAL..but.the computer in itself is a modern marvel of technology, think about it, the machine you're sitting in front of right now, 50 years ago, it would take a 20x20 room to ...

dgiaimo Mar 16, 2004

Interesting question, but then again how do we have consciousness? After all, we are nothing more than extremely sophisticated computers. There is no separate "soul" that makes us conscious.

ophelia Mar 16, 2004

yeah, biological computers...if likened to a robot, i guess we're an extremely complex combination of inanimate objects(minerals, nutrients, etc.) making chemical reactions to form life..and if it ...

dgiaimo Mar 16, 2004

But our consciousness must be purely a consequence of our physical makeup, since there is nowhere else it could come from. That's actually one of the things I find so amazing. Somehow God invente...

iwz Mar 19, 2004

or, conversely, he designed the universe and physical materials in a way to perfectly befit beings made in his image.

fivezero fivezeroOG 2003

a couple of awesome thoughts. never thought of it that way.

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