AI and cognitive psychology rant (getting more and more OT - tell me if I should shut up)

[Anton Vredegoor]

Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>What we humans call 'reality' is completely determined by our senses and
>the instruments we can build. How we interpret the data is powerfully
>influenced by our social environment and history. As an example the
>persistence of material objects is alleged by some to be true only for
>small time scales <10^31 years; humans don't have long enough to learn
>that.

Persistence of material objects will become obsolete much sooner. See:

 http://crnano.org/systems.htm

This discusses three ethical systems and their usefulness for dealing
with the coming nanotechnology era.

The articles conclusion has quite a Pythonic ring to it, I feel.
However just like Python, it will have to give up on backward
compatibility someday :-)

Anton