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**Lillie_Steins** · 08-23-2012, 04:29 AM

What sri.Sravana calls the "reductionism" was also called the Analytical approach as opposed to the "Wholistic (and then Holistic) approach" and the discussion is going on for the past 60 years or more and encompasses the entire spectrum of all Intellectual Activities.The "Time Honoured" example of 4 blind men trying to understand an Elephant has been repeated umpteen times..Prof.Isac Asimov (Born Russian--Professor of Bichemistry at Boston University (1919- 1992) was thick and thin in this discussion.He was the man who "Coined" the word "Robotics",which he thought was a "Science Fiction" which has now become a "Reality" today and threatens to supercede Human Intelligence.Some feel the Machine-(Analytical)-Human (Hoilistic) interface will continue for ever.This "Fear" is now extended to --what Professor Alex Comfort (British Gerotologist) called "Tampering the with the Genes(Biological) at Fundamental level" and his propheccy has come true in the threatened creation "Android" Monsters.Neither of the Two can be 'given up' nor one "promoted" in preference to the other.We have to just keep our fingers "crossed" and be "Mute witnesses.("Mooga Saakshi").What Humanity did with Nukes ?.

"Naaham Kartha"--Kaamah Karthaa--Naaham Ka Rahithaa"--Kaamah Ka Rahithaa".( I think Krishna Yajur Vedham or Atharvana Vedham)

Please read this article if Time permits.

[PDF] A brain in a vat cannot break out: why the singularity must be extended, embedded and embodied

F Heylighen, CLA ECCO - 2012 - 134.184.131.111
... [Heylighen, 2007-2011; Heylighen, Heath & Van Overwalle, 2004]. In the remainder
of this paper, I will apply this holistic philosophy of mind, ... In this view, ... constraints
programmed into it (like Asimov's laws of robotics). Chalmers briefly ...

08-23-2012, 04:29 AM	#19
Lillie_Steins Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 4,508 Senior Member	What sri.Sravana calls the "reductionism" was also called the Analytical approach as opposed to the "Wholistic (and then Holistic) approach" and the discussion is going on for the past 60 years or more and encompasses the entire spectrum of all Intellectual Activities.The "Time Honoured" example of 4 blind men trying to understand an Elephant has been repeated umpteen times..Prof.Isac Asimov (Born Russian--Professor of Bichemistry at Boston University (1919- 1992) was thick and thin in this discussion.He was the man who "Coined" the word "Robotics",which he thought was a "Science Fiction" which has now become a "Reality" today and threatens to supercede Human Intelligence.Some feel the Machine-(Analytical)-Human (Hoilistic) interface will continue for ever.This "Fear" is now extended to --what Professor Alex Comfort (British Gerotologist) called "Tampering the with the Genes(Biological) at Fundamental level" and his propheccy has come true in the threatened creation "Android" Monsters.Neither of the Two can be 'given up' nor one "promoted" in preference to the other.We have to just keep our fingers "crossed" and be "Mute witnesses.("Mooga Saakshi").What Humanity did with Nukes ?. "Naaham Kartha"--Kaamah Karthaa--Naaham Ka Rahithaa"--Kaamah Ka Rahithaa".( I think Krishna Yajur Vedham or Atharvana Vedham) Please read this article if Time permits. [PDF] A brain in a vat cannot break out: why the singularity must be extended, embedded and embodied F Heylighen, CLA ECCO - 2012 - 134.184.131.111 ... [Heylighen, 2007-2011; Heylighen, Heath & Van Overwalle, 2004]. In the remainder of this paper, I will apply this holistic philosophy of mind, ... In this view, ... constraints programmed into it (like Asimov's laws of robotics). Chalmers briefly ...
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