Hello Achim, Saturday, December 29, 2007, 8:40:05 PM, you wrote:
Interesting... So you're claiming that humans have powers of deduction beyond what computers possess? ;-)
They would be programming us if otherwise, wouldn't they?
oh, well. God created humans, humans created computers. God has created our programs (psychics), we does the same for computers but what's a programming? without me, computer will never print "hello world". but without him, i will never write this letter - only its ability to easily transfer mail between continents forced me to do it next. can you compile this "hello world" program down to assembler? humans often says about things that they can do but computer can't but they forget that computers was created exactly to do things that we can't. billion of computations per second is beyond our abilities just imagine compiling of this program without pencil and paper and you will draw conclusion that computers have power of deduction that humans definitely doesn't have. and it's only one aspect which doesn't take into account duration of human life (of course if we want to say about *real humans* and not abstract mathematical model of immortals), difference between people's abilities (it's common mistake to compare abilities of one concrete computer with MAXIMUM of abilities of all people, including whose in all future generations), don't take into account that human by itself, at the moment of birth doesn't know anything about mathematics and even can't speak - he is programmed by society to acquire these skills so, computers are definitely more advanced devices - they was created to. we (humanity) just don't yet finished development of the program which at some moment will make them able to further develop itself without our help. if you believe that human is superior to computer you should also believe that bacterium is superior to human -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com