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0 pointssomewhereoutth4d ago0 comments

In the grand scale of things, a computer is not much more than a fancy brick. Certainly it is much closer to a brick than to a human. So the question is more 'why should this particularly fancy brick have abilities that so far we have only encountered in humans?'

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derrak4d ago

> Certainly it is much closer to a brick than to a human.

I disagree with this premise. A computer approximates a Turing Machine, which puts it far above a brick.

somewhereoutthOP4d ago

but still so so much further to go until you reach human.

djeastm4d ago

> fancy brick

If we're going to be reductionist we can just call humans "meat sacks" and flip the question around entirely.

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