>Anyway, it was basically Robin & Co. (not to single you out, Robin, but
>apparently I just did) arguing over whether or not machines can achieve
>consciousness, and whether they could do this themselves or by us
>designing/programing it. A good discussion, but then it got really
>divergent and self-indulgent by questioning if consciousness even
exists
>(and it's definition), also including David M. and Joe D. arguing about
who
>was the most faithless, and then the thread evolved into a bunch of
>sauerkraut (no pork, I'm a vegetarian) that was wholly fruitless and at
>that point I stopped paying attention.
>
>And sorry for the consistent inconsistence of my name on my part,
folks.
>I'm having a post-adolescent identity crisis! "Confusion will be my
epitaph."
o... so ill keep deleting the messages... ~the great tinkerer