I laughed. also at your parsi surname in the handle.

respect due.

well played.

'consciousness' is a classically computable process

IMHO, a committee of men is required to pleasure a single woman.

Agreed about Deutsch's decline but you gotta ask how can such 'philosophy' based on modern science lead to so many people turning into numbnuts.

So consciousness is a natural phenomenon, in the strict sense of self-awareness?

The joker who showed how naked we are without our fictions of maintaining identity, a job philosophers have undertaken since Lao Tzu.

Just wanted to say you are a beacon in this dark commentariat. thank you.

No sweetie. You are sticking to the model and theory of computation you are comfortable with, just like Chomsky refined Grammar into syntax.

Another day, another Idiot who forgot Occam.

Thank you. I understand io9 need to pose AI as controversial but these commenters seriously arguing on it are making fools out of themselves. Some even bring in 'consciousness', that rock of human spirituality.

I thought you had more drugs in California than anybody else.

Thank you. I will check out his other stuff. You have hit the nail on the head when you point out the Oral Storytelling feel. I believe Stephenson has fond memories of military anecdotes and other general detritus our grandparents' generation related to them when no other means of distracting the kids was available.

Nothing, and I might sound like a fanboi but I haven't gone through other works of Stephenson, I repeat, nothing, comes close to the majesty of Cryptonomicon. What a polished hand, what grasp and range. I can wax eloquent about the flow all day. The hard SF take on recent history makes it an exposition of the…

I think I saw Avina near the staircase

You are onto something.

As much I hate Rand's enthusiasm for unbridled consumerism, I loathe the escapist LOTR even more.

Shit dude. You have some really messed up ideas. Yes, she was the great purveyor of consumerism aka 'hedonism under capital' but please don't compare her to Kant.

I always NEED MOAR FURRR!!!