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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