X-Message-Number: 11530 Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 01:36:19 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Emulated Person, Real Output The discussion with Thomas Donaldson has gotten off the main point I was trying to make. I don't doubt that today we don't have anything approaching an emulation of a person in a computer, and in particular, someone with literary gifts, at a fully human level, despite some interesting results. Some of these will be found in Kurzweil's *The Age of Spiritual Machines*. But I was saying that if we *did* have a human-level emulation, which we might in some device of the future, the intellectual property produced by that emulation (poetry, mathematics, whatever) would be *real* intellectual property. It would be real in a way that, for example, an emulated stomach would not be doing real digestion, which would counter a criticism of Searle in his recent review of the Kurzweil book. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11530