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Computer hardware will always be limited by the software that programmers write for it.
by bigphishy 12y ago
Computer hardware will always be limited by the software that programmers write for it.
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoYes, and interesting: the human hardware, despite being apparently self-aware and adaptable, is always limited by the software the operator loads in to it. The hardware has limitations too, of course, though it seems most of our limitations are self-imposed. I wonder if self-awareness and self-conciousness can actually be decoupled? I think that's what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is on about when he talks of 'flow state' - where 'awareness' becomes decoupled from the 'self'. Can we program a machine to be better at that than we are? Is that actually an ideal state to be in permanently?