[TML] Future wars will be run and won by computer control

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/9/08 3:15 PM, "Garry Ward" <garry.e.ward at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> We leave the world of Traveller here.
> 
> I consider the human mind to be more than just the mechanics which is what
> the computer can simulate.
> 
> There are those who don't see that and probably never will see that.
> 
> I can not look at the creativity of the human mind and say that it is just
> the random firing of neurons that produces that creativity.

I would say randomness filtered through thought.

> Traveller touched on the idea that the mind was more than just an
> electrochemical process with Psioncs but that is as far as it went.

What more is there besides electrochemical (and possibly quantum) processes?

Unless you're going to posit a "soul" (which has lots of good arguments
against it), it's all physical processes.  And those processes can be done
in silicon gates just as they are in neurons.