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[Krimel]

[Ham]
Leave it to an objectivist to put technology before metaphysical truth. 
Dreyfus is right, of course.  A machine, regardless of how complex or 
sophisticated its design and processing capability, is not a cognizant 
being.  The notion that Science will eventually produce a conscious machine 
overlooks the fact that intelligence is information, not consciousness.  You

can no more put consciousness into an electro-mechanical device than you can

transform it into a living organism.  I am appalled that such illogical 
thinking surfaces in a purportedly "enlightened" philosophy forum, let alone

the AI community.

[Krimel]
I would have let this hammerheaded rubbish pass but you called me an
"objectivist." I mostly let the labels pass but when you call me a Randian,
them's fightin' words. You are the devotee of that horse crap, not me.

As for the "substance" of what you say I would call it slightly on the runny
side. Would you care to start a list of impossible things that science has
made common place? 

You Luddites never learn.