Esharastr on Nostr: ‘Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have ...
‘Could a machine ever be said to have made its own decisions? Could a machine have beliefs? Could a machine make mistakes? Could a machine believe it made its own decisions? Could a machine erroneously attribute free will to itself? Could a machine come up with ideas that had not been programmed into it in advance? Could creativity emerge from a set of fixed rules? Are we - even the most creative among us - but passive slaves to the laws of physics that govern our neurons?’
From the foreword by Douglas Hofstadter for ‘The Enigma’ by Andrew Hodges
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