Sayonara

Does it matter*? If you can tell the difference between one atom of, say, carbon, with properties X, and a copy of that atom of carbon (also with properties X), I'd be impressed. * Pun not intended.

Traditionally when you are giving support it helps to use a diagnostic approach rather than just splurging random advice all over the page.

I don't think Plato ever made it to the North Pole.

When I said "computation with light" earlier, I was not referring to optical communications.

It's good to see we are now starting to get more people with graduate and post-grad qualifications Huzzah!

This guy again. He must have forgotten he already did this here once.

I'm pretty sure Blorch underwent an organic sweep. There won't be any slaughtering rat librarians left.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5368

"Thing and Its Law" Oh no that again.

RePets!

Individuals don't evolve.

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That was my bad. In the quoted bit on the "wasn't that atm's avatar" post it said "jakiri", and I read the post as "wasn't that JaKiri's avatar?"

The above is what I was originally talking about, but your previous "it sounds like a really simple program used inside a robot, just to make it look clever" seemed to imply deception.

Errr... how do you know you have an autoimmune disease if you have yet to get a satisfactory diagnosis? Or did I miss something?

Well, not necessarily just to make it look clever. I didn't mean to imply that.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in the UK had granted the right to perform "therapeutic cloning" on human embryos to researchers at the University of Newcastle. The work will involve searching for treatments of common or incurable conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3554474.stm

There is a stickied thread in the General Mathematics forum iirc.

Can I come and live with you?

We do use latex. That's what happens when you bump ancient threads

I don't think that searching for a power source is necessarily "intelligent" behaviour. It's probably based on a really simple nested logic loop. I'm sure the system used was intelligently designed, but that's not the same thing.

We are approaching the lower limit in transistor size (using current methods) which will slow the rate at which we can develop faster computing devices. However circuit-board-free motherboards are being developed using chips etc that directly influence adjacent components, which may lead to a short term fix. There ought to be a recent article about that in the slashdot hardware section - I think it was Apple or Sun or someone developing it. We are also rapidly approaching "viability thresholds" in the fields of computation with light, and quantum computing. These will allow huge leaps forward (and will probably become mainstream in that order).

Aha! I thought of a way around it

When will people stop referencing the Discovery Channel?

According to who? Personally, I can think of many machines that are smarter than a dishwasher.