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>From: markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden)
Subject: Re: Intelligence and Understanding
Message-ID: <1992Mar3.034821.7635@smsc.sony.com>
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
References: <1992Feb29.080019.9272@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Mar1.072408.25643@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1992Mar1.213842.6333@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 92 03:48:21 GMT

In article <1992Mar1.213842.6333@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas) writes:
>In article <1992Mar1.072408.25643@a.cs.okstate.edu> onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR) writes:
>>   A computer does not have volition.  A computer does not have volition
>>   because, even as a system, its behavior is presecribed and thus
>>   predetermined.
>
>Possibilities for hardware and software errors always exist.

Even better, by making good use of quantum uncertainty you can introduce
massive unpredictability into the functioning of a computer.  This does
not even require the computer to exhibit faulty or disorganized behavior,
just behavior which is usually predictable in overall scope but not in
specifics.

Mark Corscadden
markc@smsc.sony.com
work: (408)944-4086


