X-Message-Number: 11900 Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 20:58:02 -0400 From: Brook Norton <> Subject: : conciousness, interacting tome Mike Perry wrote: >The Book could simulate many conscious beings who may be interacting, but does that allow *you* to interact?< Sure it does. It simulates you and so calculates your every conversation and responds correctly (thru some kind of robot that acts out the tome calculations). So a Turing Tome (with robot) could respond correctly in a conversation with you. I should note though that it isn't really reacting to *you*, as you speak *now*.... rather when the Tome was created with all the correct initial conditions input, it calculated what you would be doing at any future time frame and responds to these calculations.... rather than say having sensors that read your activity real time. Brook Norton Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11900