Living organisms are in a constant state of well orchestrated activities. These activities cannot happen on their own; unless there is a force to initiate and sustain them. This force is the life of the organism. This force, unlike other forces in nature is not static, but dynamic and intelligent. It is dynamic because it sustains a life process that is extremely dynamic. It is intelligent because it orchestrates an extremely complex life process. For example it orchestrates the development of a single cells embryo into a fully grow human being with an extremely complex brain. Therefore, although a single cell embryo does not have a brain it does have a life that is extremely intelligent. One can get a faint idea about this intelligence if we look at computers. Computers do not have brain. Yet they perform some extremely complex and intelligent tasks. Some people call it computer intelligence. Life is however much more than a computer because it is dynamic, self-sustaining, constructive and reproductive. Furthermore, its intelligence is far greater than the most powerful computer we can ever build. This is evident by the fact that it orchestrates the building and functioning of multiple highly complex organs, including a highly intelligent human brain with memory capacity approximately equal to 20,000 computers. Life, therefore, is a dynamic and intelligent force that keeps organisms functionally active.
Functions of living organisms include: growth, development, self-preservation and reproduction. These functions are all related to their bodies. Human beings however, also have functions that are not related to the body. These functions include: creative and rational thinking and moral decision making. Therefore, human life, which is involved in developing and maintaining these functions transcends the body and does not die with the death of the body. Furthermore, these functions mirror those of God’s. Human life therefore is sacred. In addition, since this life enters human body at conception human life is sacred from the moment of conception.
What is life?
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Post #21
Don't want to be a nit-picker here... but 1998? I was like 9 at the time of that report.. I don't think we (my family) owned a PC back then. From the time we first got one insanity broke loose.. each month it became better, each year it was way more than doubled.
The most powerful experimental supercomputers in 1998, composed of thousands or tens of thousands of the fastest microprocessors and costing tens of millions of dollars, can do a few million MIPS. They are within striking distance of being powerful enough to match human brainpower, but are unlikely to be applied to that end
From wikipedia the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 has 59,455 MIPS. That is one processor from 2008. 1998 had the PowerPC G3 with 525 MIPS. According to the article you quoted in 1998 they supercomputer and the human brain were within striking distance. Now they have become a hundred times faster/better.
Fun stuff this although it's not my subject at all
In May 1997 he (Kasparov) met an improved version of the machine. That February, Kasparov had triumphed over a field of grandmasters in a prestigious tournament in Linares, Spain, reinforcing his reputation as the best player ever, and boosting his chess rating past 2800, uncharted territory. He prepared for the computer match in the intervening months, in part by playing against other machines. Kasparov won a long first game against Deep Blue, but lost next day to masterly moves by the machine. Then came three grueling draws, and a final game, in which a visibly shaken and angry Kasparov resigned early, with a weak position. It was the first competition match he had ever lost.
And more recently:
# 2004, a team of computers (Hydra, Deep Junior and Fritz), wins 8.5-3.5 against a rather strong human team formed by Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Sergey Karjakin, who had an average ELO rating of 2681.
# 2005, Hydra defeats Michael Adams 5.5-0.5.
# 2006, the undisputed world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, is defeated 4-2 by Deep Fritz..
The most powerful experimental supercomputers in 1998, composed of thousands or tens of thousands of the fastest microprocessors and costing tens of millions of dollars, can do a few million MIPS. They are within striking distance of being powerful enough to match human brainpower, but are unlikely to be applied to that end
From wikipedia the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 has 59,455 MIPS. That is one processor from 2008. 1998 had the PowerPC G3 with 525 MIPS. According to the article you quoted in 1998 they supercomputer and the human brain were within striking distance. Now they have become a hundred times faster/better.
Fun stuff this although it's not my subject at all
In May 1997 he (Kasparov) met an improved version of the machine. That February, Kasparov had triumphed over a field of grandmasters in a prestigious tournament in Linares, Spain, reinforcing his reputation as the best player ever, and boosting his chess rating past 2800, uncharted territory. He prepared for the computer match in the intervening months, in part by playing against other machines. Kasparov won a long first game against Deep Blue, but lost next day to masterly moves by the machine. Then came three grueling draws, and a final game, in which a visibly shaken and angry Kasparov resigned early, with a weak position. It was the first competition match he had ever lost.
And more recently:
# 2004, a team of computers (Hydra, Deep Junior and Fritz), wins 8.5-3.5 against a rather strong human team formed by Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Sergey Karjakin, who had an average ELO rating of 2681.
# 2005, Hydra defeats Michael Adams 5.5-0.5.
# 2006, the undisputed world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, is defeated 4-2 by Deep Fritz..
Isn’t this enough? Just this world?
Just this beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable natural world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention
That we have to diminish it with the invention
Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
- Tim Minchin
Just this beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable natural world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention
That we have to diminish it with the invention
Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
- Tim Minchin
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Post #22
the site I quoted also said it would take 100 million MIPS to mimic human brain function
This agrees with our earlier estimate that it would take 100 million MIPS to mimic the brain's function.
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