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		<title>By: guest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These 4 lines describes the above better.

Nityahi nityanam
Chetanasya chetanam
so ham

ohm brahmarshi.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These 4 lines describes the above better.</p>
<p>Nityahi nityanam<br />
Chetanasya chetanam<br />
so ham</p>
<p>ohm brahmarshi.</p>
<p>The entire reply to quantum riddle and on consciousness is lying here.</p>
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		<title>By: davis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Q. Is this a question?
A. Yes - if this an answer!
  OK. old joke from a philosophy paper - anecdotally true.
   My personal opinion is that since man is a product of the universe, the knowledge must lie within - (the micro/macro enfolding of time and space within the individual kind of argument)- and I crave the kind of world where people argue the toss about this kind of (gloriously as yet-) subjective stuff. Sincerely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Q. Is this a question?<br />
A. Yes &#8211; if this an answer!<br />
  OK. old joke from a philosophy paper &#8211; anecdotally true.<br />
   My personal opinion is that since man is a product of the universe, the knowledge must lie within &#8211; (the micro/macro enfolding of time and space within the individual kind of argument)- and I crave the kind of world where people argue the toss about this kind of (gloriously as yet-) subjective stuff. Sincerely.</p>
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		<title>By: You</title>
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		<dc:creator>You</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I WILL FUCKING RAPE YOU AND YOUR FUCKING FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, UNTIL I HAVE ASSIMILATED THEIR BLOOD WITH MINE.  I WILL MURDER EVER MALE THAT IS EVER SPAWNED, AND THEN I WILL COMMIT GENOCIDE UPON OUR GRAND CHILDREN, FOREVER REMOVING YOUR BLOOD FROM EXISTENCE.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I WILL FUCKING RAPE YOU AND YOUR FUCKING FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS TO COME, UNTIL I HAVE ASSIMILATED THEIR BLOOD WITH MINE.  I WILL MURDER EVER MALE THAT IS EVER SPAWNED, AND THEN I WILL COMMIT GENOCIDE UPON OUR GRAND CHILDREN, FOREVER REMOVING YOUR BLOOD FROM EXISTENCE.</p>
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		<title>By: Douglas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Douglas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Music is not entirely about intuition, mechanically and technically, there is a lot of finite mathematics involved.

Intuition is a large part of it, but not in its entirety.

So, how do we create artificial intuition?

Intuition is rather extensive and ambiguous, considering its intangible and transient nature.  I believe it to be a coalescence of rapid logic, educated scenario outcome hypothesizing, weighed with an account of past experience and mental tendencies since the life of the consciousness, as well as the more sublime and vague intrinsic human capabilities regarding instincts and impulse.

More or less, intuition can be relegated down to electrical impulses that are dictated and perpetuated by some of the above indicators.  Is it pretentious to posit that perhaps in the future, individual facets of A.I. will be developed?  Artificial hormones, artificial serotonin...

Chemical and electrical impulses, hormones, neurological make-up, pretty much human genetics as a whole, can be argued as being simply necessary to promote the survival and proliferation of your DNA.

As cold and calculating as that seems, what more suitable to a machine or computer?

And to be honest, its really not that cold.  While it makes it sound like genetic perpetuation puts a short list on the meaning of life, these survival instincts are also emotional responses.  What we feel, what we love, what we dislike...

Artificial Emotion.

I believe its not too far off to guess that its only a matter of time before these necessary partitions of artificial intelligence are explored.  When this is done, the possibilities concerning AI will become torrential.

While the basis behind survival instinct itself, and genetic coding get rather complicated, this is all just fantastic begging.

Not to mention music composition.  Note phrasing, song structure, and musical nuances particular to individual instruments are directly related emotion as well as experience...if artificial emotion is a reality, its only a matter of time before a computer is going to be feeling the blues.

Being a musician myself, I would really like to see a form of AI that responds to human musical input.

This, given a direct relative counterpoint (the human generated music) makes it a rather simple idea.  Hopefully its not too far off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Music is not entirely about intuition, mechanically and technically, there is a lot of finite mathematics involved.</p>
<p>Intuition is a large part of it, but not in its entirety.</p>
<p>So, how do we create artificial intuition?</p>
<p>Intuition is rather extensive and ambiguous, considering its intangible and transient nature.  I believe it to be a coalescence of rapid logic, educated scenario outcome hypothesizing, weighed with an account of past experience and mental tendencies since the life of the consciousness, as well as the more sublime and vague intrinsic human capabilities regarding instincts and impulse.</p>
<p>More or less, intuition can be relegated down to electrical impulses that are dictated and perpetuated by some of the above indicators.  Is it pretentious to posit that perhaps in the future, individual facets of A.I. will be developed?  Artificial hormones, artificial serotonin&#8230;</p>
<p>Chemical and electrical impulses, hormones, neurological make-up, pretty much human genetics as a whole, can be argued as being simply necessary to promote the survival and proliferation of your DNA.</p>
<p>As cold and calculating as that seems, what more suitable to a machine or computer?</p>
<p>And to be honest, its really not that cold.  While it makes it sound like genetic perpetuation puts a short list on the meaning of life, these survival instincts are also emotional responses.  What we feel, what we love, what we dislike&#8230;</p>
<p>Artificial Emotion.</p>
<p>I believe its not too far off to guess that its only a matter of time before these necessary partitions of artificial intelligence are explored.  When this is done, the possibilities concerning AI will become torrential.</p>
<p>While the basis behind survival instinct itself, and genetic coding get rather complicated, this is all just fantastic begging.</p>
<p>Not to mention music composition.  Note phrasing, song structure, and musical nuances particular to individual instruments are directly related emotion as well as experience&#8230;if artificial emotion is a reality, its only a matter of time before a computer is going to be feeling the blues.</p>
<p>Being a musician myself, I would really like to see a form of AI that responds to human musical input.</p>
<p>This, given a direct relative counterpoint (the human generated music) makes it a rather simple idea.  Hopefully its not too far off.</p>
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		<title>By: WAAAAARGHJonathan</title>
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		<dc:creator>WAAAAARGHJonathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry I mean personality - it also makes you act in the certain ways you do. Characteristics.. things like that..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry I mean personality &#8211; it also makes you act in the certain ways you do. Characteristics.. things like that..</p>
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		<title>By: WAAAAARGHJonathan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m totally confused ;)

You have totally lost me.. I would have just thought that if you&#039;re alive you are aware of your surroundings because you have a brain lol. And personality sort of makes you who you are, but you people are whoa so much more clever than me!!

I don&#039;t know any of the the words you&#039;re using! Hehe..</description>
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<p>You have totally lost me.. I would have just thought that if you&#8217;re alive you are aware of your surroundings because you have a brain lol. And personality sort of makes you who you are, but you people are whoa so much more clever than me!!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know any of the the words you&#8217;re using! Hehe..</p>
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		<title>By: brism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The universe and existence in general are only &#039;real&#039; because of the fact we have awareness of it. To the best of our knowledge, awareness requires a &#039;life-form&#039; to accommodate it. Therefore, without &#039;life&#039;, there is no awareness and hence, no universe. Without awareness, one could say that there is then, &#039;nothingness&#039;. So, for anything to exist, there must be awareness of it. The universe and existence go hand in hand with awareness.
Then there are &#039;levels&#039; of awareness; for instance, we humans are aware that we have awareness. We can contemplate our awareness. Can we say the same for the budgie in our cage? Probably not. Are there levels of awareness greater than humans&#039;? Probably yes.
In short, the universe is the physical manifestation and existence is the abstract manifestation of awareness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The universe and existence in general are only &#8216;real&#8217; because of the fact we have awareness of it. To the best of our knowledge, awareness requires a &#8216;life-form&#8217; to accommodate it. Therefore, without &#8216;life&#8217;, there is no awareness and hence, no universe. Without awareness, one could say that there is then, &#8216;nothingness&#8217;. So, for anything to exist, there must be awareness of it. The universe and existence go hand in hand with awareness.<br />
Then there are &#8216;levels&#8217; of awareness; for instance, we humans are aware that we have awareness. We can contemplate our awareness. Can we say the same for the budgie in our cage? Probably not. Are there levels of awareness greater than humans&#8217;? Probably yes.<br />
In short, the universe is the physical manifestation and existence is the abstract manifestation of awareness.</p>
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		<title>By: Alex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps we may learn to accept our role as the life that feeds a beautiful cycle of eternal expansion</description>
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		<title>By: Gurudev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gurudev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kailash
Interesting thoughts! Software is inanimate, just a series of commands that are executed, its simulated intelligence, than real intelligence, more than intelligence the key is awareness/consciousness, which is definitely absent in it. Awareness brings unpredictable nature, a self aware animal can do anything it wants without adhering to any predefined rule. A dog can bark whenever it wants, a human can suddenly decide to listen to music, etc. AI cannot do that. One might again try to simulate randomness using random numbers, but even they are again actually pseudo random numbers and there is no consciousness in it either!

As for transplanting brain, all that a brain needs is a supporting system in the form of blood, oxygen, nutrients etc. So transplanting to robots would be the same as doing the other way round to a human body, i,e take out all the natural parts of a human body like heart, legs, hands, eyes etc and attach artificial parts to it, and provide an interface for brain to send signals to operate these artificial hardware parts! Probably we can also have sensors which would sense touches and send corresponding signals to the brain to feel touch, etc.. So it actually would be the same person who originally owned the brain, except that now he is a 100% physically handicapped person ;)

I remember having read a telugu novel on similar lines where a scientist who dies because of some uncurable disease requests other medical professors to preserve and feed his brain so that he can continue to think and do research even after the brain is taken out and his body cremated!! The alone brain interacts with the physical word by exchanging electric signals with hardware! I think the author of this novel was Malladi Venkatakrishnamurthy. I had read it long back while I was in my 10th!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kailash<br />
Interesting thoughts! Software is inanimate, just a series of commands that are executed, its simulated intelligence, than real intelligence, more than intelligence the key is awareness/consciousness, which is definitely absent in it. Awareness brings unpredictable nature, a self aware animal can do anything it wants without adhering to any predefined rule. A dog can bark whenever it wants, a human can suddenly decide to listen to music, etc. AI cannot do that. One might again try to simulate randomness using random numbers, but even they are again actually pseudo random numbers and there is no consciousness in it either!</p>
<p>As for transplanting brain, all that a brain needs is a supporting system in the form of blood, oxygen, nutrients etc. So transplanting to robots would be the same as doing the other way round to a human body, i,e take out all the natural parts of a human body like heart, legs, hands, eyes etc and attach artificial parts to it, and provide an interface for brain to send signals to operate these artificial hardware parts! Probably we can also have sensors which would sense touches and send corresponding signals to the brain to feel touch, etc.. So it actually would be the same person who originally owned the brain, except that now he is a 100% physically handicapped person <img src='http://www.hitxp.com/articles/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I remember having read a telugu novel on similar lines where a scientist who dies because of some uncurable disease requests other medical professors to preserve and feed his brain so that he can continue to think and do research even after the brain is taken out and his body cremated!! The alone brain interacts with the physical word by exchanging electric signals with hardware! I think the author of this novel was Malladi Venkatakrishnamurthy. I had read it long back while I was in my 10th!</p>
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		<title>By: kailash shaw</title>
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		<dc:creator>kailash shaw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hi,

i am new to this field, but very much got exited by above conversetion. do you think that AI is only a mere inteligence provoded by the software, and robot act as command wriiten on software. if it yes, then you should accept that software is a nonliving material which does not start running by itself it need another hardware to read and execute. and as u know hardware is nonliving matterial hence they can not write software for them selves. that why they will alway depend up knowledge which humans do have. Now millions dollar question what will happen if scientist can successfully transplant a human brain into robot. will it got the reallization of its existance ?



i need comments .........</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hi,</p>
<p>i am new to this field, but very much got exited by above conversetion. do you think that AI is only a mere inteligence provoded by the software, and robot act as command wriiten on software. if it yes, then you should accept that software is a nonliving material which does not start running by itself it need another hardware to read and execute. and as u know hardware is nonliving matterial hence they can not write software for them selves. that why they will alway depend up knowledge which humans do have. Now millions dollar question what will happen if scientist can successfully transplant a human brain into robot. will it got the reallization of its existance ?</p>
<p>i need comments &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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