64. But if thinking consists only in writing and speaking, why shouldn’t
a machine do it?
Could a machine be in pain?
It is a travesty of the truth to say: thinking is an activity of our
mind, as writing is an activity of the hand.
the way to put it initially is to ask – why shouldn’t a machine propose?
the machine is a proposal – and built into the machine is production
capability –
what a machine produces will be proposals –
open to question – open to doubt – uncertain
could a machine be in pain?
perhaps a malfunction of a machine could be regard as the machine in
pain?
it really depends on just how you define ‘pain’
what form does a proposition take?
be it described as the result of a thought process – or that which is
written – or something else –
what is logically relevant is that it is seen for what it is – a
proposal –
open to question – open to doubt – uncertain –
what form a proposition takes –
is logically irrelevant
© greg t. charlton. 2014.
