Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words Purpose of non-sentient entity
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
OP The latter, a kind of rudimentary purpose. Of course humanoids exhibit largely conscious design and the lower animals act from mostly evolutionary instinct, while even the behavior of compounds at the threshold between microorganism and molecule appears vaguely purposeful. Atoms or molecules grouping to become a crystal no doubt has some kind of survival value as with other instances of reaction, attraction and repulsion at the atomic level.
Thus nothing is entirely anything and everything is partly something else. The neutron is conscious
So there's no distinct dividing line where a being or object undergoing a process can be called totally aimless or lacking conscious purpose. As an ordinary concept the digital world at present can hardly be called deliberate. Again, though, there's no fundamental distinction between today's digital complex monopolizing our spare time and the day when Star-Trek Data-like androids enslave us
We think it's exclusively under our control while it acts to bolster that assumption til we're happy doing its bidding, convinced it is we who are still in control
You might reply, but Data isn't conscious. Yet no doubt you've heard the argument where every cell of a human body is replaced, one at a time, by its submicroscopic semiconductor equivalent until it is technically a machine, like Data. Surely it will claim it still possesses feeling and is under its own conscious control just as we do now in our denial that the digital world is surely but slowly taking over
Gees, I just glanced at the time; I've been at this longer than I had intended
dalehileman
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Purpose of non-sentient entity dalehileman 04/28/09 06:51 PM Re: Purpose of non-sentient entity Zed 04/30/09 01:11 AM Re: Purpose of non-sentient entity dalehileman 04/30/09 05:42 PM Re: Purpose of non-sentient entity TheFallibleFiend 04/30/09 06:21 PM Re: Purpose of non-sentient entity dalehileman 04/30/09 06:43 PM . twosleepy 05/01/09 02:41 AM Re: . BranShea 05/01/09 08:26 AM Re: . latishya 05/01/09 10:07 AM Re: . Faldage 05/01/09 10:47 AM Re: . tsuwm 05/01/09 02:54 PM Re: .chelonian quizzing zmjezhd 05/01/09 03:11 PM Re: . BranShea 05/01/09 07:36 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,368Members9,182 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV
9,182 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 748 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 21
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,561tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,919Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org