>> And so far throughout this entire process you have
>> not once mentioned the
>> discipline required to *think*.
>
> because thinking is plural, eryk…it's not as simple
> as what you're laying out…otherwise, we REALLY would
> have been able to design a machine that
> thinks…instead, all we can do is design machines
> that make decisions…which is not really thinking…
>
> there's visual thought and sonic thought and
> linguistic thought and mathematical thought and
> algorithmic thought and…
>
>
> so…disciplines…
>

aren't we embedded, consequently the machines with us. if we can't even
*think* the machines making decisions for us then waiting for
authorization from other machines. where does one machine start and
another begin? _decision making makes life easier_[tm] where whims join
the void.