(urth) 5HC : Chinese boxes or tea chests?

[Maru Dubshinki]

What I meant was something along these lines: ' Suppose further that
the robots ran into some difficult, advanced, hard-to-solve
life-threatening problem. Let's call it X.  Then the robots solve X
just like the humans would have, if they were still around (because
the robots are so very good at imitating what humans would do). Then
some advanced aliens come...' etc.

~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.

Nathan Spears <spearofsolomon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I get the "have to nuke the asteriod" bit.  If the computers ran off
> solar energy than it would be a legimate problem, I suppose, although not for the
> reasons they were aware of.  But don't you think that an entity which has
> consciousness needs to be "self-aware" enough to make real decisions concerning its
> own future?  Or were you saying that the computers destroyed the asteriod out of a
> legitimate sense of self-preservation?
> 
> Chris, I would have gone with Platonic Plutonians: do the computers aspire to the
> Form of Personhood?