QUOTE ((SG)Max @ Feb 3 2008, 07:15 AM)

If we create something that can think , whether the thing will help us or not would actually depend on how we treat it . The only reason some goverment or scienctists will create that would be to make a super computer , soooo , if it thinks like us , but smarter , it would really depend on its feelings
See, scientists can already do that. Of course, there is no Jetson's maid yet. Even simple programmers that know a basic language can do that. The problem comes in with the environment. Whether you treat it well is obviously the smart thing like your own body. That goes with the environment too.
And that is I guess what Legatus is talking about in the Chaos Theory.
Can a computer be random? Of course, by design. But any thing created creates its own opposite. You know, man has been getting smarter and they are inventing things that last 1000s of years, but in the process, the production of these things has produced the opposite. To make things last for longer than they are supposed to, you have to remove the things that do not.
How long do leaves last on a tree? Well, how many leaves do you want to rake next week? Go ahead; in another year or so, you'll do it again.
Apart from the fact that that is how the earth has grown, what would be the result of trees with no leaves?
Finding that out stops the Chaos Theory for trees. Mankind is not controlled by the Chaos Theory. Animals are, though.
People treat certain animals like they have no feelings, they cage them up, grow them just to eat, hunt them down and kill them. Just doing that creates more chaos not because it is not the feelings of the animals, it is less animals to be in the Chaos. Mankind is not in control of the Chaos, they are ouutside of it looking in.
Switch to Holographic Images. Can a Holographic image have life? Yes, but it would be like moonlight. The moon does not control the life we have given it, the sun does. In our imagination, in the rear of our brains, a light comes on at night in the sky that is yellow; not that there is not, but your brain is a processor of information giving you ultraviolet images or whatever spectrum. There is no color in space. Even the little green men aren't really green. Sunshine is not colored and the sun does not cause heat, it is the processor in your brain that relays the information from the registers and the interpretation of the message is 'yellow and hot.' Heat does not burn, it is just the atoms are travelling so fast that any contact with the fast travelling atoms causes the breakdown in the atomic structure. . . Oh, sorry . . . Burns do cause pain, and that you can feel.
What are Holographic Images made of? Well, the same thing that causes your thoughts. The same thing that is causing the objects on the screen you're looking at. They are made of Ionic Material. Did y'all know that the sun is totally ionic? Except for the surface, though. The surface is molten iron and Hydrogen and Helium and a few more elements that are atomic. But the inside of the sun is not even atoms. . . and neither is Holographic Images.
Could that make the Sun and Holographic images related? I think it does make an interesting speculation into the properties of life.
Yes, we can predict the future. If we know the breakdown sequence of the least and the smallest. But creating something that can perform the activites that are normal for the brain to do, we end up removing those activities. Those activities are the landmarks that make brains function.