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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
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It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
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The original question, 'Can machines think?' I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
