> I always thought about our intellect being something "superior" > to this world made of fragile bones and stinking flesh. > However I realized that there's probably no real magic in > it... knowing there are pills to make you happy is sort of > shocking from a philosophical point of view :-)
Yes it is, but it doesn't mean, that this well known insight has an effect on what people think about themselves, the religion and the Universe. For an example of what I try to say here, see the "What Deep Blue showed was that chess is not a game of true intelligence" discussion thread in rec.games.chess.computer and track what meaning people assign to the concept of Artificial Intelligence since the term was coined. As long as a machine can't replicate itself and defend its own existance, its intelligence will be questioned. And even if such a machine can fight its enemies the final answer to the question if "true intelligence" is unique to humans can be only given in a fight, but even then the evidence of existance of superior AI can't be given, because only dead people are forced to agree, but it doesn't matter to them anymore ... Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
