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Posted by DJ Shibby on Aug-10-2007 22:30:

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Originally posted by DJ Shibby
Information, man.

The universe isn't strings, or atoms, or photons, or electrons... the universe is pure information.

The crazy thing is, we/what becomes of us will eventually make "robots" so small that they actually become a part of our universe.

When I think of "atoms", and viruses, and everything really, etc etc, I can't help but wonder if it is all some advanced entity's "nanobots" in action.

I think some scientist is following me around for insight! lol, check it out:

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Could alien life exist in the form of DNA-shaped dust?

Could alien life exist in the form of dancing specks of dust? According to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another.

"This came as a bit of a surprise to us", says Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. He and colleagues have built a computer simulation to model what happens to dust immersed in an ionised gas, or plasma.

The dust grains pick up a negative charge by absorbing electrons from the plasma and then this charged 'nucleus' attracts positive ions, which form a shell around it.

link: http://space.newscientist.com/artic...haped-dust.html

Posted by Anti-Derivative on Aug-10-2007 23:10:

You can't rule out computer 'understanding' or sentience without being able to define how such things work in ourselves. It may well be that our sentience is the result of a complex set of pattern matching and data lookup hardwiring using the set of input stimuli that our sensory systems provide over our lifetimes.

As the 'intelligence' algorithms and hardware advance, machines will be able to learn and incorporate external stimuli in more and more complex ways. At some point this level of function may reach a point where they 'might as well' understand what they are doing, because they (the computers themselves) have developed the appropriate algorithmic and data infrastructure to deal with and innovate whatever they are tasked with (or have tasked themselves with). Do we call them sentient at this point? What is the necessary criteria for this?

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