>On Aug 16, 11:02 am, Jan Panteltje yahoo.com> wrote:

>> On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:00:10 -0500) it happened John
>> wrote in <18-dnVwozvoYdjvVnZ2dnUVZ_r7in...@supernews.com>:

>
>

>> As to 'mystic' and ,consciousness,, well 'mysticism' will have to go,
>> if we look to the past, where the earth was at the centre of the universe, and
>> the sun and stars orbiting around it, we will now have to give up on the idea
>> that 'we' are special, we are controlled by just a larger collection of neurons.

>
>Spendid. So why do you care? And why bother studying it at all? If
>all we are is a few utterly meaningless electrochemical connections.
>And, by the way, why haven't we made more progress in Artificial
>Intelligence by this time? No computer comes remotely close to human
>intelligence except in extremely narrowly defined activities like
>chess.
>