Re: what's the difference
Face Inthecrowd (facethecrowd@hotmail.com)
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:11:21 -0400 (EDT)
About a woman being born with a nifty brain, one that cannot compare or
contrast two facts, it could happen, theoretically, it just hasn't happened
yet. I guess that's where my argument is weak though. Computers don't sort
through the differences between one datafile and another though, it would
take too long. I'm not sure how computers work, so I duck out on this one.
I do know that computer programers are trying to create an artificial
intelligence and they do this by randomly generating a trillions of numbers,
each being a fraction of 1. The computer program then pools all these
numbers and sorts them in a different way each time, based on how the prior
numbers were sorted. By the end of the computer program, these trillion
numbers have been sorted according to a unique pattern every time, starting
from the first sorted number. These groups of numbers can represent facts,
dogs, and giraffes, and they are sorted on successive experiments according
to what groups the experiment captain (a human) has deemed relevant to his
purposes. So, further proof that the computer compares, I'm not sure what
the rest of it means, but they say that computers are much like the human
brain, and that artificial intelligence is the closest to the way the brain
actually runs.
So each meaning of a certain object changes from person to person, based on
their brain structure (the sorting program used) and what number was
originally sorted, or what object the baby initially saw, or the object that
had a significant impact in the child's formative years. That doesn't
matter though, what matters is that meaning is different for everyone, so to
know the real meaning of anything, you would have to sort through all the
differences in the world by comparing them (or contrasting them I guess (in
a random pool you could use either technique with equal success)), until the
groups have been assembled, at which point, no absolute meaning exists
anyway.
If everyone gave their definition of a hyacinth, all the answers would be
different, because either everyone has seen different things or not everyone
has seen the same thing, which I guess is the same thing. That's my
astounding conclusion. Sorry to make you all read this.
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