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It's absolutely possible for machines to point out things no human had thought about before.
by notduncansmith 10y ago
It's absolutely possible for machines to point out things no human had thought about before.
- zepto 10y agoIs that all meaning is to you? Especially the kind of meaning embodied by art? Reductive definitions don't seem to contribute much to these kinds of discussion.
- ori_b 10y agoI've heard people speak about how they find meaning in nature. If a random process can manage, why not a computer?
- zepto 10y agoYou are calling people a random process?
- squeaky-clean 10y agoNature is the random process.
- zepto 10y agoOk, but the commenter said that people are making the meaning.
- goatlover 10y agoNatural selection isn't random. Fitness is selected for. Find meaning is probably a fitness ability for humans.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Natural selection isn't random. Yes, it is; specifically it's a biased filter over a lower-level set of random change processes (which has its own biases) produces a biased-but-random (non-deterministic) changes over time.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt totally is a random process. It's just not drawing from an uniform distribution. In fact, the process strongly influences the distribution it's drawing from.
- ori_b 10y agoMountains aren't formed by natural selection.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoThis man found a lot of meaning in mountains, rivers, skies and trees [0] and passed it to others. At least the first 3 of those are not made by natural selection. [0] http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/2014/09/29/1003bobrosstoc.jpg http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/2014/09/2...